Double MRS 'Oppies' Win for ResTech Firm Cobalt Sky

Research technology provider Cobalt Sky took home two gongs at this year's MRS Operations Awards, including the main prize, the Premier Award for Operational Excellence. The awards ceremony took place at The Curtain, in Shoreditch, London, last Thursday evening.

Cobalt Sky has provided software and analytic services and solutions to the research industry since 1989. In the seven years since the Oppies launched in 2014, the company has won the Operational Excellence award four times, and this year it won for demonstrating how it had evolved its business to meet the challenges of Covid-19. In addition, the company took home the Best Data Collection - Quantitative award for its 'commitment to delivering quality data and exceptional client servicing'.

This year's Best Data Collection (interviewer administered) prize was awarded to RONIN International, for its participation in the US Government's Survey of Refugees, which involved interviewing vulnerable participants in twenty different and often rare languages. Judges described RONIN's handling of the project as 'interviewing at its finest'.

Best Online Qual went to 'Here I AM Studio', which launched an online qualitative research platform to collect information about the needs, priorities and capacities of women, men, children and at-risk groups in Ukraine, on behalf of humanitarian agency CARE International.

Other awards went to:

• Streetbees for Best Data Solution
• Empower Translate for Best Support Services
• B2B International for Best Sustainable Operation
• Ipsos for Best Training and Development
• Made in Studios for Best Viewing Facility - Experience and Impact, and
• Aspect Viewing Facilities for Best Viewing Facility - Technology and Innovation.

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