Published date: 14 January 2025

Last edited date: 14 January 2025

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


Closing: 25 November 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Market research services - 79310000

Location of contract

NP10 8XG

Value of contract

£2,799,880

Procurement reference

CS-25-002

Published date

14 January 2025

Closing date

25 November 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 January 2025

Contract end date

23 April 2029

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Please note - This Contract is being sourced via CCS DPS Research and Insights RM6126. This means that only those Suppliers on CCS DPS research and Insights RM6126 can submit a bid in response to this procurement.

This Procurement will establish a single Supplier Contract for the purchase of the Annual Survey of Goods and Services (ASGS) survey.

The Annual Survey of Goods and Services (ASGS) was launched as a new ONS business survey in 2017. This was in response to an independent review of UK economic statistics conducted by Sir Charles Bean (March 2016) which highlighted there was insufficient measurement of the UK services industries. The Annual Survey of Goods and Services meets the recommendations in Sir Charles Bean's review. Detailed information is now captured outlining the variety of services provided by the UK services industries, showing a split of turnover generated inside and outside the UK. Survey outputs also highlight the diversification of businesses operating within the service industries, by collecting information about products a business produces inside and outside its main industrial classification or activity.

Overall, the Annual Survey of Goods and Services has contributed to improving the quality of product breakdowns in the Supply-Use tables, and in turn the quality of balancing and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as well as improving the weights and sample for the Service Producer Prices Index (SPPI). Wider users of ASGS statistics include:
- ONS
- Bank of England
- HM Treasury
- Department for Business and Trade
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Scottish Government
- Welsh Government
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Users of economic statistics such as general users of GDP

The Annual Survey of Goods and Services compliments a longer standing ONS business survey "UK manufacturers sales by product" in which detailed product level information is collected from the UK's production industries.

Award information

Awarded date

11 December 2024

Contract start date

24 April 2025

Contract end date

23 April 2029

Total value of contract

£2,799,880

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

IFF Research

Address

5th Floor
The Harlequin Building
65 Southwark Street
London
SE1 0HR

Reference

Companies House number: 00849983

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Clare Jones

Address

Government Buildings
NEWPORT
NP108XG
Wales

Telephone

01633651633

Email

clare.jones@ons.gov.uk