Published date: 22 December 2016

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 23 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data services - 72300000

Location of contract

Any region

Procurement reference

PU-17-0328

Published date

22 December 2016

Closing date

23 February 2018

Description

Better Data for Britain: Securing commercial data partnerships to deliver better statistics for better decisions.

About ONS
ONS is the UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and is the recognised national statistical institute for the UK. Formally, it is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-Ministerial Department established by the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. It is responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels. It also conducts the Census in England and Wales every ten years. ONS plays a leading role in national and international good practice in the production of official statistics.

Introduction
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is looking to identify and engage with industry partners to help bring third party data and or expertise to directly support a 'shift' to accessing better more relevant data sources and to improve the aggregate official statistics about our population, society and economy that decision makers, businesses and citizens so urgently need.

Economic
- Gross Domestic Product
- Balance of Accounts
- Labour Market and Household
- Balance of Payments and trade
- Price Data

Population and Society
- Population
- Wellbeing
- Life events
- Census

Research led data source to support The Data Science Campus and our work on the World Resources Institute Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) underlined in our People, Planet and Prosperity programmes:
- Urban future
- Society
- Sustainability
- Evolving economy
- UK in a global context

How to register
If you would like to express an interest in being part of this engagement process, register on the ONS e-tendering portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ons and use the "express an interest" function against the Commercial Data Partnerships Project.

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Address

Government Buildings
Cardiff Road
Newport
NP10 8XG
Wales

Email

PU.projects@ons.gov.uk