International Traders and Investors Study (ITIS) Wave 6, 7 and 8

The requirement is for a supplier to provide timely survey data working with international companies across a range of countries. The total requirement is for three waves of the International Traders and Investors Study (ITIS): Waves 6, 7 and 8. The committed contractual spend for this tender is for the first wave only, Wave 6. The Authority are under no obligation to commission Waves 7 and 8 of the survey, and the supplier must only commence work on Wave 7 or 8 once formally commissioned by the Authority.

Bidders will need to be experienced providers of multi-country quantitative research and be able to meet the methodological challenges and provide the deliverables summarised below, in accordance with the project timetable. The successful supplier will need to be available for several meetings with DIT throughout the contract that will take place in central London or online as determined by DIT. These meetings will be to discuss the progress of the project, any issues suppliers need to make DIT aware of and vice versa. In addition to the inception meeting, we anticipate there being at least one other meeting before fieldwork begins, one after fieldwork concludes, and a final meeting after the final reports and before the presentation to DIT colleagues.

The supplier will be required to survey businesses in fourteen (14) core countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States. The supplier will have the capability to interview senior decision makers at international companies, their understanding of the regional differences in relation to the survey design and the choice of the methodology given the specific characteristics of the selected country. Further country options may also be selected by DIT, including but not limited to Colombia, Hong Kong, Italy, Kenya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Spain.

The key deliverables will be:

1. Presentation to disseminate the findings
2. Slide deck to summarise key findings from each individual market
3. Publication-ready summary report
4. A full publication-ready technical report on the conduct of the survey
5. Provision of a fully functional, error checked CSV dataset (will be analysed in Python and R)
6. A set of pre-agreed tabulated Excel tables and charts (weighted and unweighted) with 95% confidence intervals to allow for significance testing between waves of the survey
7. A full publication-ready report (optional deliverable)
8. Publication-ready country summary report (optional deliverable).

If you would be interested in bidding for the requirement or finding out more information, please respond to this Prior Information Notice by emailing commercialresearchandconsultancy@trade.gov.uk by 14:00 16th December 2022. We will be holding market engagement calls with interested suppliers as responses are received.