Procurement for SHARE Wave 11 Data Collection

Procurement

Procurement SHARE Wave 11

Open Tenders

Procurement for SHARE Wave 11 in the first group of countries, including

Germany, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, and Slovenia

will start on April 20th, 2026.

Procurement for SHARE Wave 11 in the second group of countries, presumably including

Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Romania

will start at the end of May 2026.

Procurement for SHARE Wave 11 in the third group of countries, presumably including

Austria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Spain, France, Poland, Sweden, and Slovakia

will start at the end of June 2026.

Procedure

Selected agencies will be invited to tender. SHARE-ERIC intends to invite at least three agencies in every country to tender.

The procedure is based on the SHARE-ERIC statutes, Art. 15 and Annex 5: Restricted Procurement Procedure.

Description of the services

SHARE has previously collected ten waves of data, where most of the questions provided information about the circumstances of respondents' lives at the time of the interview or in their childhood. SHARE's eleventh wave collects health variables (e.g. self-reported health, physical and cognitive functioning, use of health care facilities), psychological variables (e.g. well-being, life satisfaction, control beliefs), economic variables (e.g. work activity, income, retirement behaviour, wealth and consumption), social support variables, (e.g. family and social network, family support, intergenerational transfers of money and time).

As in previous waves, the questionnaire includes mainly closed questions as well as physical and mental health tests. As of Wave 11, the SHARE survey will be administered on tablets rather than laptops. The data generated from face-to-face interviews will be available free of charge to the scientific research community.

Procurement Policy

SHARE-ERIC treats procurement candidates and tenderers equally and in a non-discriminatory way, independent of whether or not they are based in the European Union. All procurement follows the principles of transparency, non-discrimination and competition.