Published date: 24 May 2017

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 30 January 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£15,000

Procurement reference

UK SBS BLOJEU-CR17004BEIS/2

Published date

24 May 2017

Closing date

30 January 2017

Contract start date

9 February 2017

Contract end date

9 February 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

BEIS's aim is to ensure that the economy grows strongly in all parts of the country, based on a robust industrial strategy and that the UK has secure energy supplies that are reliable, affordable and clean. It will encourage investment and innovation that fully utilises the UK science base, and enable a whole economy approach to deliver our climate change ambitions.
The Disruptive Businesses Directorate covers a number of policy areas, one of which is focussed on promoting a consistent approach to handling economic shocks and opportunities including responsibility for government's principles of intervention.

The Disruptive Businesses Analysis team require a robust measure of individual businesses' likelihood of failure and the likelihood of defaulting on paying creditors. This will be used to prioritise Government engagement with businesses, and to proactively assess the local impact of individual business becoming insolvent.
The aim of the exercise is to provide analysts with a regular product which would highlight businesses at risk of insolvency, and information on the accuracy and reliability of the products. Any advanced notice of an upcoming economic shock is vital so a product should either give real time notifications or be produced at a sufficiently high frequency for the information to give advanced warning.

The objectives of this tender exercise are to:
• To enable Disruptive Businesses Directorate to identify businesses which have a high risk of failure or which have a significant increase in risk of failure.
• To identify these businesses at an earlier stage than is possible through media monitoring, and to a high degree of accuracy.
• Where possible identify the site of named business, rather than the location of the Headquarters.
• To enable Disruptive Businesses Directorate to match data on at-risk businesses with sector and place indicators

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Business Failure Indicator

  • Opportunity
  • Published 23 May 2017, last edited 23 May 2017

Attachments

Additional text

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Award information

Awarded date

22 March 2017

Contract start date

23 March 2017

Contract end date

23 March 2018

Total value of contract

£12,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Dun and Bradstreet Ltd

Address

Marlow International, Parkway, SL7 1AJ

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Rebecca Fish

Address

North Star House, North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FF
England

Email

rebecca.fish@uksbs.co.uk