Preparation and implementation of the European Quality Life Survey - 230701/6961 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

Date	Document
2025-01-29	Contract notice
2025-06-17	Contract award notice
2026-01-21	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2025-01-29)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Preparation and implementation of the European Quality Life Survey - 230701/6961
Reference number: EUROFOUND/2025/OP/0006
Short description:

The purpose of this call for tenders is the preparation and execution of the 2026 European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS), a well-established instrument for assessing quality of life (QoL) and living conditions across multiple dimensions and policy areas. The EQLS is a representative survey encompassing the adult population (16+ years) and provides a unique contribution by covering all EU Member States. The survey collects comprehensive data in a single dataset, capturing insights from both the working and non-working populations.

Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Survey services 📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 5 300 000 EUR 💰
This procurement is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ✅
Description
Internal identifier: EUROFOUND/2025/OP/0006
Additional products/services:

Social research services 📦

Survey conduction services 📦

Duration: 30 months
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Please consult the procurement documents.
Quality criterion (weighting): 70
Price ✅
Price (weighting): 30
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001

Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure ✅
Legal basis: 32018R1046
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-04-14 14:00:59 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2025-04-15 11:00:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Bulgarian 🗣️
Czech 🗣️

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Danish 🗣️
German 🗣️
Greek 🗣️
English 🗣️
Spanish 🗣️
Estonian 🗣️
Finnish 🗣️
French 🗣️
Irish 🗣️
Croatian 🗣️
Hungarian 🗣️
Italian 🗣️
Lithuanian 🗣️
Latvian 🗣️
Maltese 🗣️
Dutch 🗣️
Polish 🗣️
Portuguese 🗣️
Romanian 🗣️
Slovak 🗣️
Slovenian 🗣️
Swedish 🗣️

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 6 months
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with several operators ✅
Tendering terms
Opening date: 2025-04-15 11:00:00 📅
Electronic invoicing: Allowed
Electronic payment will be used ✅
Deadline for requesting additional information: 2025-04-04 📅
Award criteria
Weight type: Weight (percentage, exact)

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
List and brief description of conditions: Please consult the procurement documents.
Economic and financial standing
List and brief description of selection criteria: Please consult the procurement documents.
Conditions for participation
Exclusion ground: Bankruptcy
Description of exclusion grounds: For the full list of exclusion grounds please consult the procurement documents.

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
National registration number: EUROFOUND
Department: Ef.adir - agency directorate,ef.adir.c - unit c
Postal address: Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: ef-procurement@eurofound.europa.eu 📧
Phone: +353 1 204 31 00 📞
URL: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
Main activity
General public services
Communication
Documents URL: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/tender-details/30ecdae0-a0ca-4c36-ad60-3e04187cc3ec-CN?#anchorDocuments 🌏
Participation URL: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/digit/opsys/esubmission?cftUuid=30ecdae0-a0ca-4c36-ad60-3e04187cc3ec 🌏
Procurement tool URL: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/tender-details/30ecdae0-a0ca-4c36-ad60-3e04187cc3ec-CN?#anchorDocuments 🌏
Name: Funding and Tenders Portal
Procurement document language: English 🗣️
Electronic submission: Required

Complementary information
Additional information

The European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) is a well-established tool for monitoring the quality of life (QoL) and living conditions in various dimensions and policy areas. These include, health and mental well-being, housing, family composition, life online, work-life balance, services, environmental quality, social and political participation and social exclusion and support and life satisfaction. The purpose of this call for tenders is the preparation and execution of the 2026 European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS), a well-established instrument for assessing quality of life (QoL) and living conditions across multiple dimensions and policy areas. The EQLS is a representative survey encompassing the adult population (16+ years) and provides a unique contribution by covering all EU Member States. The survey collects comprehensive data in a single dataset, capturing insights from both the working and non-working populations.In case of unavailability or disruptions in the functioning of the electronic means of communication provided in Section 5.1.11 in the last 5 calendar days before the time limit for receipt indicated in Section 5.1.12, the contracting authority reserves the right to extend this time limit and publish the extension at the Internet address provided in Section 5.1.11, without a preceding publication of a corrigendum to this notice. Economic operators interested in this procurement are invited to subscribe to the call for tenders at the address in Section 5.1.11 in order to get notified when new information or documents are published.

Review body
Name: Court of Justice of the European Union
National registration number: CURIA
Postal address: Rue du Fort Niedergrünewald
Postal code: L-2925
Postal town: Luxembourg
Region: Luxembourg 🏙️
Country: Luxembourg 🇱🇺
E-mail: gc.registry@curia.europa.eu 📧
Phone: +352 4303-1 📞
URL: http://curia.europa.eu 🌏
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2025/S 021-064506 (2025-01-29)

Contract award notice (2025-06-17)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated value excluding VAT: 5 300 000 EUR 💰
Maximum value of the framework agreements in this notice: 5 300 000 EUR 💰
Other restrictions on the place of performance: Anywhere
Description
Main site or place of performance: Please consult the procurement documents.

Procedure
Type of procedure
Legal basis: Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509

Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded ✅
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001
Contract Number: 25-3030-08
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2025-06-16 📅
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 3
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Maximum value of the framework agreement: 5 300 000 EUR 💰
Tender identifier: IPSOS NV
Information about subcontracting
Subcontracting percentage is known ✅
Identifier of lot or group of lots: LOT-0001
Proportion (%): 79.4
The contract is likely to be subcontracted ✅
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Ipsos nv
National registration number: BE0456823775
Postal address: GROTE STEENWEG 110
Postal code: 2600
Postal town: Berchem
Region: Extra-Regio NUTS 3 🏙️
Country: Belgium 🇧🇪
E-mail: jean-michel.lebrun@ipsos.com 📧
Phone: +3292162222 📞
Size of the economic operator: Large

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Postal code: D18 KP65

Complementary information
Additional information

The European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) is a well-established tool for monitoring the quality of life (QoL) and living conditions in various dimensions and policy areas. These include, health and mental well-being, housing, family composition, life online, work-life balance, services, environmental quality, social and political participation and social exclusion and support and life satisfaction. The purpose of this call for tenders is the preparation and execution of the 2026 European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS), a well-established instrument for assessing quality of life (QoL) and living conditions across multiple dimensions and policy areas. The EQLS is a representative survey encompassing the adult population (16+ years) and provides a unique contribution by covering all EU Member States. The survey collects comprehensive data in a single dataset, capturing insights from both the working and non-working populations.

Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
National registration number: EUROFOUND
Department: Ef.adir - agency directorate,ef.adir.c - unit c
Postal address: Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown
Postal code: D18 KP65
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: ef-procurement@eurofound.europa.eu 📧
Phone: +353 1 204 31 00 📞
URL: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ 🌏
Source: OJS 2025/S 115-395135 (2025-06-17)

Contract award notice (2026-01-21)
Award of contract
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Maximum value of the framework agreement: 5 300 000 EUR 💰

Changes
Other additional information

The modification is required to include two essential tasks that were not foreseen in the original specifications: usability testing of the paper questionnaire and the design and production of translated paper questionnaires. These tasks are necessary to ensure methodological consistency, high-quality outputs across all language versions, and effective implementation of the European Quality of Life Survey, while avoiding duplication of costs and risks to the project timeline.

Main reason for change: Modifications under a minimal value ("de minimis").
Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number: TEN-0001
New value
Text:

The framework contract for the preparation and implementation of the European Quality of Life Survey was amended to include two additional, ancillary services: the design and production of translated paper questionnaires and usability testing of the paper questionnaire. These services were omitted from the original specifications but are necessary to ensure methodological consistency, quality, and effective implementation of the survey. The modification increases the framework contract ceiling by EUR 61,665 and is legally based on the double de minimis rule.

Source: OJS 2026/S 015-046982 (2026-01-21)