The vendor is required to provide invest city wants to identify patterns in foreign direct investment and the growth of foreign agency.
- The firms to be surveyed:
• Cross-section of firms: important to include both recent arrivals and established firms that have been in the region for many years.
• Industry focus: only firms in key export-oriented sectors should be included. simplest version: exclude agency in retail, food service and accommodation, education, healthcare, utilities, construction, wholesale trade, finance, real estate and rental and leasing.
• Could include non- agency as a “control” group, provided foreign agency are oversampled.
• Recommend a sampling strategy that balances statistical robustness with practical constraints, including a justification of the sample size and margins of error.
• Advise on optimal survey length and number of questions to ensure a high response rate without compromising data quality or time to completion.
• Demonstrate relevant experience with economic, investment-related, or business-to-business survey research, particularly involving hard-to-reach or executive-level respondents.
• Provide a clear project timeline that has the project wrapping up by mid-November at the latest.