PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Online trials to support User Empowerment

OFCOM · published 14 Apr 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release IDf83c3591-90af-402c-95af-5460a5170653-840299
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-cfbe06a0-dbe3-4ebf-975b-4c7d2da487c9
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-42310
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£50,942
award field
Tender value
£50,942
tender field
Procurement method
Other - Mini Competition via Ofcom Market Research Framework Agreement
Category
services
CPV
79310000
Market research services
Delivery
Not stated
SE1 9HA
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

To explore eligible customers' reactions and appetite for a discount scheme in post and what the key features are to make a scheme useful. We would like to understand: which elements within a scheme are essential for a scheme to have value and what is nice to have, level of interest/potential take up among those likely to be eligible, and how that is influenced by different choices on the design of the scheme e.g. available offline versus online only, preferences around which postal services customers would need to be included, possible barriers to take up, e.g. having to provide personal details like name, address and dob so eligibility could be checked by RM with DWP, any concerns/ preferences with different access options e.g. if access to the scheme was only online - any preferences, concerns or barriers with this? If access was only via Royal Mail (online, phone or post) and not via a post office - any preferences, concerns or barriers with this? Is the ability to access the scheme 'offline' e.g. via post office, phone or post seen as essential and if so, which would be most favourable, preferences/ concerns towards how the discount is delivered to eligible customers e.g. code, card, voucher, likely use of a scheme - would it help them afford to send post/ afford essentials? Would the discount be meaningfully helpful to them and their finances? Would it change their use of the postal service? Would it enable them to do something they cannot currently do?

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release14 Apr 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published10 Feb 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published28 Mar 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published30 May 2025
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 14 Apr 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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