NP/EFSA/COM/2025/01 - Acquisition of consumer panel data

Published:
Deadline:
Expired
Budget:
€140,000
Approximate launch date:
July 2025

Call reference: NP/EFSA/COM/2025/01

Deadline to register interest: 28/07/2025

Background

EFSA would like to acquire consumer panel data to carry out food-related research to understand the link between risk perception and behaviour among others.

Objectives

Objective 1: Provide EFSA access to consumer panel data to gather information on the actual food purchase behaviour in one or more EU countries.

Objective 2: Support EFSA in conducting a survey on a sub-sample exploring the link between risk perception and behaviour.  

Selection criteria - technical and professional capacity

Requirement 1: The tenderer overall must have extensive and demonstrable experience in the subject matter of the call, including understanding purchase behaviour.

Requested evidence:

A list of three major projects, datasets, analysis, or publications related to the subject matter of the call, carried out in the course of the past 5 years. 

Requirement 2:  Professional capacity (team)

The tenderer must have the ability to provide a team compliant with the following minimum expertise requirements:

  • One project manager with at least 5 years of professional experience in managing consumer panel data projects.
  • One data survey/analyst expert with at least 5 years of professional experience with planning, programming and/or implementing surveys.

Requested evidence:

Detailed CVs of the project team members proposed for the assignment.

One-page summary with the project team members and the covered profiles. 

Requirement 3: The team of experts must have overall a excellent level of spoken and written standard UK English. For non-native English speakers, the knowledge of English shall be demonstrated by: i) an official certificate of English proving a C1 level, or ii) at least 2 years of work in an English-speaking environment and/or in international projects where English is the working language.

Requested evidence:

A signed statement confirming the above. 

Requirement 4: Technical capacity (overall)

The tenderer must have the following minimum technical capacity to perform the contract: Access to consumer panel data providing information on consumers purchase behaviour in one or more EU countries.

Requested evidence:

A signed statement confirming access to the above.

If you are interested in this procedure please send an email within the deadline to EFSAprocurement [at] efsa.europa.eu quoting the reference of the procedure and specifying the following:

  • your name/organisation’s name and address;
  • whether you participate as a physical person or an organisation/private company. 

If you intend to apply in joint offer with partners. In this case, you must clearly identify each member of the joint offer and which partner is appointed as the lead partner. The composition of the partners in a joint offer cannot be changed once the invitation to tender letter has been sent.

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