Published date: 2 February 2024

Last edited date: 8 February 2024

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: 29 February 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Shipping operations - 60640000

  • Data services - 72300000

  • Data collection and collation services - 72314000

Location of contract

NP10 8XG

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

IT-333-3649-PU-24-0166

Published date

2 February 2024

Closing date

29 February 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

31 July 2024

Contract end date

1 August 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

About the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
ONS is the UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and is the 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. ONS plays a leading role in national and international good practice in the production of official statistics.

The Requirement
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has a need for reliable, comprehensive, and easy-to-use information about the transport services provided or received by the UK shipping fleet, including any goods purchased during, or to support, the provision of transport.

Quarterly and Annual estimates are required broken down by ship type covering:
o Passenger revenue collected outside the UK
o Freight revenue for transporting goods
o Charter receipts from a non-UK company
o Charter payments to a non-UK company
o Disbursements on bunkers/lubricants
o Disbursements on catering, ship stores and other goods
o Disbursements on services purchased
o Repair and maintenance costs
o Ship management fees

Disbursements are voyage-related expenses, mainly incurred when ships visit ports. Examples of the types of services purchased to include are:
i) Cargo handling
ii) Warehousing/storage charges
iii) Port dues, pilotage, and towage,
iv) Canal dues (Suez, Panama etc.)
v) Maintenance of shore establishments abroad
vi) Advances made to crews whilst abroad, whether UK nationals or not
vii) Other Services such as agency fees/commissions incurred abroad

It is essential for the data to be broken down into different ship types for both quarterly and annual data. Examples of ship types to include are:
o Container, Bulk carrier, and Other Dry Cargo
o Tanker and Liquefied Gas Carrier
o Offshore support vessels/non-cargo
o Cruise/Passenger ships and Roll-on Roll-off ferries

It is essential that the annual data can also be further broken-down by the:
o Load and unload country for freight data.
o Country the passenger revenue is collected from overseas or the residency of the non-UK passenger for passenger revenue.
o Country the disbursement is incurred in regardless of where the payment was made for all disbursements.
o Nationality of the company or the country the ship is being chartered to or from for the chartering data.
o Number of non-UK vessels managed by UK companies and UK vessels managed by non-UK owners for the ship management fees data.

The data will need to be sent in an excel/csv format. The quarterly data will need to be available one month after the quarter has ended and the annual data available five months after the year has ended....

More information

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How to register
Please register on ONS's e-tendering portal - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ons/aspx/Home . You will then be able to 'express an interest' in this project (all current projects can be found under 'Current Tenders').
When you have expressed an interest, please reply using the correspondence function, within the message. Please provide a brief synopsis of what your organisation can offer in terms of the requirements detailed above. We may then schedule follow-up one-to-one sessions where we can discuss further.

Additional Information
This Exercise is NOT a pre-qualification or selection exercise and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process that may apply to any future potential procurement. It is intended to act as an awareness and information gathering exercise offering an opportunity for suppliers to advise the extent to which they potentially can provide some or all the services that ONS may require, in order to help ONS with its future intentions.



Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Clare Jones

Address

Government Buildings
Cardiff Road
Newport
NP10 8XG
United Kingdom

Telephone

01633 651633

Email

clare.jones@ons.gov.uk