# Understanding Society Survey Waves 9-11 \(T602\)

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [University of Essex](/buyers/university-of-essex/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: TNS-BMRB
- Award value: £16,700,000
- Tender value: £22,500,000
- Award date: 25 April 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 2 May 2016
- Contract end: 31 May 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 394db48b-3de2-4826-8d86-e5698ad4e804-97872
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-b55af1e3-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

Understanding Society is a large household panel survey, which requires continuous fieldwork through the year\. The main sample covers the UK and consists of individuals in around 25,000 households, whilst the Innovation Panel is a sample of 1,500 households used by researchers as a test-bed for innovative ways of collecting data and for developing new areas of research\. The key requirements for this project are that the fieldwork agency/agencies achieve high response rates, a high level of data quality and the ability to meet deadlines for fieldwork and data delivery\.”

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/394db48b-3de2-4826-8d86-e5698ad4e804-97872)