Qualitative Data Collection Services

The St. Charles, Missouri government authority is seeking a vendor to provide professional qualitative data collection services. The agency needs to gather community insights through key informant interviews, focus groups, and listening sessions to inform local initiatives. The project aims to identify community strengths, assess the built environment, understand forces of change, and analyze the social determinants of health. The selected vendor must facilitate a minimum of six focus groups, utilizing the five social determinants of health domains as topics for at least five of those sessions. The agency requires the vendor to record and transcribe all sessions, develop a codebook structure, and perform thematic analysis and synthesis. To ensure robust community participation, the vendor must compensate participants and provide supporting resources such as childcare, transportation, meals, and refreshments. Deliverables include raw data in the form of full written transcriptions, the codebook structure, and comprehensive summary reports. Bidders must perform all work onsite in St. Charles, Missouri, and eligibility is restricted to onshore entities located within the United States. The agency is requesting budget proposals for a contract period that will run for one year. Interested parties must submit any questions regarding this opportunity no later than June 12, 2026. Bidders may submit their final responses digitally via email or through the designated online portal. The agency will evaluate proposals based on the submitted methodology, qualifications, and proposed budget.