Published date: 17 January 2019

Last edited date: 17 January 2019

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 21 January 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

  • Industry specific software package - 48100000

  • Miscellaneous software development services and computer systems - 72212900

    • Software supply services - 72268000

Location of contract

NP10 8XG

Value of contract

£25,000 to £75,000

Procurement reference

PU-19-0135

Published date

17 January 2019

Closing date

21 January 2019

Contract start date

29 January 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

ONS is looking for a Supplier to efficiently develop a stand-alone website that contains, after a log-in and account verification, an initial quick survey on some basic characteristics questions, and a subsequent online questionnaire allowing individuals to record their activities throughout a two-day period or more (not necessarily consecutive days).
The project requires that the baseline version of the website is developed at pace, fulfilling the minimum criteria outlined below and in the subsequent tender, which are generally simple, while also suggesting options for further development to be considered.
The diary questionnaire structure would link to an 'activity code' list that has been pre-designed by ONS, though there can be an option to tweak this in development of the website tool, if found to be easier. Individuals should be able to choose categories of primary and secondary activities they are engaged in, and time spent on each of them should be provided, as well as the option for potential extra categories such as an 'other information' box, for whom a service was produced, and if a smart device was used to engage in the activity or secondary activity. These potential extra categories should be investigated during the user testing to determine the impact on quality of the result.

During development stages of the website and during its user testing, regular scrums and progress reports would be expected. ONS would encourage an agile project structure to get more frequent feedback on the iterative design and build stages, aiming for a minimum viable product. This could also allow more frequent user testing, but we are open to different suggestions from the company.
The front-end needs to be user friendly and encourage easy collection of data, across diverse groups representing the UK population. It will need a secure password log-in before the survey and online diary questionnaires can be filled in. We would want high-availability, for example accepting down-time of 3 hours outage per week, but not at peak times such as mornings, late afternoons and evenings. Individuals should be able to fill in their information as soon as the activity is done, or they can fill in most of the day's activity all in one go at the end, but they should not be able to fill in their activity for time that has not passed yet......

Full Details can be found in the attached Statement of Requirement by logging onto the In-Tend Portal

More information

Links

Additional text

To tender for this requirement you will need to be registered to ONS e-tendering portal In-Tend

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ons/aspx/Home

Once registered please email John.marchrones@ons.gov.uk to attach you to the project in order to view the ITT documentation

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

John Marchrones

Address

Government Buildings
Cardiff Road
Newport
NP10 8XG
United Kingdom

Telephone

01633 456167

Email

john.marchrones@ons.gov.uk