Longitudinal survey contracts
UK public sector · 145 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 145
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £99k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £77.7m
- 137 of 143 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 76
- Suppliers
- 60
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See which ones
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What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most longitudinal survey contracts took 44% of them (64 of 145).
- Contracts awarded per quarter fell 37% from the first half of the period to the second.
- The median contract, £99k, is 24% above the median across consulting & accountancy contracts (£80k).
Who buys longitudinal survey
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Department for Business and Trade13 contracts£8.6m
- 2Department for Education10 contracts£33.5m
- 3Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government7 contracts£1.8m
- 4Financial Conduct Authority6 contracts£505k
- 5Ofcom6 contracts£334k
- 6Scottish Government4 contracts£486k
- 7NHS England4 contracts£146k
- 8Department for Transport3 contracts£15.3m
- 9University of Essex3 contracts£956k
- 10Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs3 contracts£947k
Top longitudinal survey contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Ipsos23 contracts£12.4m
- 2IFF Research17 contracts£17.7m
- 3YouGov9 contracts£2.4m
- 4Yonder9 contracts£1.4m
- 5BMG Research6 contracts£1.6m
- 6National Centre for Social Research4 contracts£31.2m
- 7Savanta4 contracts£581k
- 8SCHOOLS HEALTH EDUCATION UNIT LIMITED3 contracts£160k
- 9Verian2 contracts£990k
- 10PERCEPTIVE INSIGHT MARKET RESEARCH LTD2 contracts£831k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Consumer Scotland to IFF Research · Awarded 29 September 2026
Perth & Kinross Council to Jump Research · Awarded 29 September 2026
West Midlands Combined Authority to BMG Research · Awarded 28 September 2026
Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to PERCEPTIVE INSIGHT MARKET RESEARCH LTD · Awarded 23 September 2026
Environment Agency to Ipsos · Awarded 18 September 2026
Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire to Social & Market Strategic Research (SMSR) · Awarded 17 September 2026
The Pensions Regulator to Yonder · Awarded 11 September 2026
Department for Education to National Centre for Social Research · Awarded 9 September 2026
Environment Agency to Systra · Awarded 9 September 2026
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£1.4m
Department for Business and Trade to IFF Research · Awarded 7 September 2026
Largest
Department for Transport to National Centre for Social Research · Awarded 20 January 2026
Department for Education to IFF Research · Awarded 11 June 2026
Department for Education to Ipsos · Awarded 21 April 2026
Department for Education to National Centre for Social Research · Awarded 20 January 2026
Government Commercial Agency to Ipsos · Awarded 9 March 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 116 · Wales 14 · Scotland 12 · Northern Ireland 3
What is included
Designing, sampling and running quantitative surveys of the public, businesses, schools or specific populations, including national, international and longitudinal cohort surveys, with data and reporting.
- National and representative surveys
- Longitudinal and cohort study fieldwork
- Business surveys
- International assessment surveys in schools
- Survey design, development and questionnaire testing
- On-board incidence surveys
- Supply of field interviewers and short-term interviewer capacity for household and social surveys
What is not included
- Satisfaction trackers of the buyer's own tenants, residents or customers (see Customer satisfaction survey)
- Staff surveys (see Staff and employee surveys)
- Traffic counts and transport model surveys (see Traffic and transport surveys)
- Statistical sampling design for scientific surveillance programmes (see Engineering research)
- Survey platforms without fieldwork (see it software (it.ent.survey consultation platform))
- Administrative dataset collation (see it software (it.data.data collection and statistical reporting))