Notice for Research Consultancy Services for a Community Health Research Project

Tender Ref 463

You are invited to consider tendering for the provision of research consultancy services.

The contract or contracts will be to carry out, in the UK, part of a large international study called Community Interventions for Health. The survey is part of a research project conducted by De Montfort University Schools of Business and of Nursing & Midwifery. The project is funded by the Oxford Health Alliance (OxHA), a charity based in the UK. The contract or contracts will be administered by De Montfort University at Leicester.

The survey will begin with the baseline in September-October 2009 and will be followed up at the completion of the study in September-October 2011.

The overall aims of the research are set out in more detail in a proposal document available at http://www.oxha.org/initiatives/cih  The contract relates to that part of the research proposal concerning the survey fieldwork. De Montfort University needs assistance with two components of this project:  undertaking the neighbourhood survey (n= 5600) and the scanning of all survey questionnaires including those done in schools, hospitals, health centres and workplaces (n=@ 21,400).

You may download an invitation to tender including the Survey Operations Protocol Manual from www.tenders.ac.uk

Tenders must be returned on or before noon Friday, 17 July 2009.

For further details either call Kevin Dobson, Procurement Manager on + 44 (0) 116 2577328 or email purchasing@dmu.ac.uk 

De Montfort University has a legal duty to comply with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Accordingly, information in relation to this contract and any prior related tender may be made available on demand in accordance with the legislation. You should state if any of the information supplied by you as part of the contract is either confidential or commercially sensitive, or should not be disclosed to third parties in response to a request for information under the Act. The reason for such sensitivity must be specified. In such cases, the relevant material will be examined in the light of the exemptions provided in the Freedom of information Act or Environmental Information Regulations, although the University cannot guarantee that an exemption will apply.

Publication date:  30 June 2009