UK-Bradford: gamma cameras
BTH 092 Supply of a Gamma Camera. Gamma cameras. The requirement includes a gamma camera with acquisition and processing systems. The purchase may be split between a supplier of the gamma camera and a supplier of the processing system. Suppliers may tender for a processing system only. CPV: 33111620. ...
UK-Castleford: metering instruments
Consumer sub-metering and data collection for district heating system. Metering instruments. Provision of an integrated system of heat meters for measurement and smart prepayment meters to enable payment for energy used by consumers within properties located within district heating networks. Service to involve the provision of suitable prepayment methods acceptable to a wide range of different individual circumstances and the ability to collect consumption data for electronic transmission on an at least weekly basis. To include full implementation and training and maintenance options. CPV: 38410000. ...
UK-Wakefield: storage units
Classroom storage. The supply of classroom storage manufactured in MFC, available in various sizes (mobile and freestanding) and various tray configurations. This contract is for the supply and after sales services of the above stated items to be used primarily in school, other educational establishments, and office environments within the public sector. CPV: 39173000, 39160000. ...
UK-Wakefield: mains gas
The supply of firm gas. YPO are looking for providers to be appointed onto a framework agreement for the supply of mains firm gas. This framework is designed to meet the needs of all public sector organisations. CPV: 09121200, 65200000, 09123000, 45333200. ...
UK-Wallington: natural gas
Yorkshire Housing Group - supply of gas for 93 sites. This contract is for the supply of gas to 93 sites in Yorkshire. Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the myTenders web site at http://www.myTenders.org/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=85642. CPV: 09123000. ...
UK-London: social research services
ESS7 call for question module design teams. The principal investigator of the European Social Survey (ESS), Rory Fitzgerald, is inviting proposals from multi-national teams to design modules for the questionnaire for Round 7 of the ESS. Background. The ESS is a biennial, academically-driven social survey that charts and explains the interactions between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations. The project has already completed 5 rounds which have covered over 30 nations and employed the most rigorous survey methodology. A fully-documented multinational dataset is available from the ESS Data Archive. Fieldwork for Round 6 will start in September 2012. Further information about the ESS is available at www.europeansocialsurvey.org. To date, the ESS has been funded by a consortium of organisations from across the European Research Area. The central design and coordination has been funded via the European Commission's Framework Programmes, with supplementary funds from the European Science Foundation. Fieldwork and other national costs have been borne by national academic funding agencies. During 2012 the ESS will apply for the status of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Research ministries in member countries will then be legally responsible for the operation and funding of the ESS infrastructure. ESS Round 7 is dependent on the success of this application, the outcome of which is anticipated in late 2012. The design and preparation of the Round 7 questionnaire will begin in July 2012, in anticipation of funding via ESS ERIC. To avoid delay, and in response to recommendations from the ESS Review Panel (Groves et al 2008), applications are invited early. The final selection of teams and initial preparations will therefore take place in advance of funding confirmation. The ESS is directed by a Core Scientific Team (CST), led by the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys at City University UK (Rory Fitzgerald, Principal Investigator), and comprises NSD Norway (Bjørn Henrichsen), GESIS Germany (Angelika Scheuer), SCP Netherlands (Ineke Stoop), UPF Spain (Willem Saris), University of Leuven Belgium (Geert Loosveldt), and the University of Ljubljana Slovenia (Brina Malnar). The CST is responsible for the design, content, methodology, coordination, archiving and timetabling of the study for each round. The questionnaire for each round consists of two elements: a core module of substantive and socio-demographic items (around 100 in all); and 2 rotating modules, each including up to 30 items. Each rotating module covers a single academic and/or policy concern within Europe and is drafted by a competitively selected team. Each Question Module Design Team (QDT) works closely with and is guided by the CST in developing its module. Call for question module design teams. We wish to attract social scientists across Europe who are interested in comparative survey data to apply for the opportunity to design a module of 30 items. From Round 5 onwards the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the ESS has invited applications both for 'new' rotating modules and for 'repeats' of prior modules. The SAB may decide to select 2 new modules, 2 repeat modules or 1 new and 1 repeat. This decision is entirely at the discretion of the SAB although its members have indicated that they would normally anticipate selecting at least one new module per round. In Rounds 5 and 6 the SAB selected one new and one repeat module. For Round 7, a repeat module is defined as one which replicates 66 % or more of a prior ESS rotating module. Applications are invited from multinational teams of a minimum of 3 and up to 5 subject specialists, based in at least 3 different ESS countries, to help design one of the rotating modules for the seventh round of the ESS. In addition, at least one member of any team applying for a repeat module should have analysed and published data from the prior ESS module on the same subject. Applications for repeat modules are welcomed from both the team who designed the original ESS module on the topic and from new teams. In all cases the selection will be made on merit. Using the appropriate application form (for a new or repeat module), available from the ESS website, applicants should make the theoretical and practical case for their intended topic area and supply their credentials as substantive and survey specialists in that field. The main content of the proposal will differ slightly depending on whether the application is for a 'new' or 'repeat' module. The full Call and application forms as well as examples of successful applicants from previous rounds are available from the ESS website. The teams selected will work closely with the CST and others on the design of their module. The head of each team will be expected to coordinate internal discussion within their team and to communicate with the CST (although they may delegate this role to another member of their team). No budgetary provision exists to cover salary or associated costs for the team. However, it is anticipated that travel and accommodation costs will be met for around three working meetings per team with the CST (at least one of which will be at a national coordinators meeting, comprising the people running the ESS in each of the participating countries). It is expected that the head of each team will attend the meeting with national coordinators. As in Rounds 4-6, a system of documentation of questionnaire design will be used to make the process transparent throughout. In the first instance, teams will be asked to complete a template provided by the CST, which outlines the aims of the module and its proposed framework. This will then need to be updated at regular intervals to provide a detailed narrative on the development of the questions. The template will be in two sections. The first will contain the proposed framework and theoretical background of the module, specifying its aims, the concepts to be measured and their anticipated relationships. The second section will outline the dimensions that form part of each concept and how each of these is likely to be measured by specific question forms. Ultimately the rationale for selecting each chosen item will be described so that it is transparent to all users. The template will also be used to record the results of data analysis of pre-testing and pilot findings. The final version of the module will be accompanied by the above documentation and will be published on the ESS website. A copy of the templates including narrative between the two QDTs in Round 5 and the CST is available from the ESS website. All proposals, documents and meetings will be in English, the ESS's working language. Final decisions on the form and content of the modules are the responsibility of the CST, having taken account of the views of the Question Module Design Teams (QDTs), results from pre-testing, comments from national coordinators and the Scientific Advisory Board, translation considerations and timing. QDTs will have early access to data from Round 7 (around a month before the final data release) in order to check and 'prove' the provisional dataset, thereby providing them with the opportunity to consider (but not publish) articles prior to the dataset's official release. In addition to the obligations outlined in the preceding paragraphs, QDTs also have a number of other obligations once the data have been released. First, if the CST decides subsequently to produce an ESS EduNet training package based upon the rotating module, members of QDTs may at that point be asked to help in the design of these packages. Some funding is usually available to cover the time involved. Second, each QDT is required to make a substantive presentation to an SAB meeting within two years of the release of the Round 7 data, at which key findings will be presented and publication plans outlined. Finally, each QDT is expected to have had at least one article accepted for or published in a peer-reviewed journal based largely on the ESS data within three years of data release. Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the myTenders web site at http://www.myTenders.org/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=85641. CPV: 79315000. ...
UK-Morpeth: health and social work services
Day services for people with a learning disability. CPV: 85000000, 85300000, 85310000, 85311000, 85312000, 85320000, 98000000. ...
UK-Wolverhampton: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Customer Relationship Management and Back Office Systems. The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement: no CPV: 72000000, 72500000, 72510000, 72200000, 72600000, 72300000, 72268000, 72260000, 72261000. ...
UK-Forfar: public road transport services
Provision of tendered local bus services. CPV: 60112000, 60140000. ...
UK-Nottingham: telephone network maintenance services
Data and Voice Telephony Support and Maintenance. Telephony Maintenance – Current Position. The trust currently has two maintenance contracts. Maintenance for the CISCO data/telephony network is provided by BT-inet and expires on 30.6.2012. Maintenance for the Nortel telephony system is currently provided by BT Global and expires on 30.6.2012. Proposed Options. Bidders must bid for either lot 1 or lot 2 or lot 4 individually and/or for Lot 3 which is a combined lot of both lots 1 and 2. The trust may award lots 1,2 and 4 to separate or a single organisation or lot 3 only to a single organisation. Lot 1 – Cisco data/telephony network maintenance and support. Lot 2 – Nortel telephony system maintenance, cost improvement programme and decommissioning schedule. Lot 3 – Both of the above lots. Lot 4 – Cancer Centre Service. CPV: 50334110, 50312300. ...
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