Published date: 12 November 2024

Last edited date: 23 December 2024

This notice was replaced on 7 January 2025

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Opportunity (published 7 January 2025)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Data services - 72300000

Location of contract

SW1A 2DY

Value of contract

£6,958,629

Procurement reference

tender_464399/1424665

Published date

12 November 2024

Approach to market date

6 January 2025

Contract start date

1 April 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2028

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") has a potential requirement for the provision of generalist company and supply level datasets & risk datasets.

The Secretary of State for DBT is the contracting authority responsible for meeting this anticipated requirement. DBT intends to publish the Contract Notice 06/01/2025.

The full specifications shall be provided with the contract documents but they are expected to incorporate:

Lot 1: Generalist Company and Supply Level Data
The requirement for datasets that fulfil the mandatory criteria for one or more of the following:

- 1 - Trading relationships between businesses ('A' supplies 'B')
- 2 - Products produced by a business, or at a business facility ('A' sells ' steel' OR 'steel' is made at 'X')
- 3 - Locations of business activity ('A' has a factory at 'X')
- 4 - Transactions between facilities owned by businesses (Factory at 'X' owned by 'A' sends goods to Factory 'Y' owned by 'B' on 'Z' date)

Lot 2: Company-level Risk Information

Lot 3: Country-level Risk Information


It is anticipated the contract shall be for a period of up to 36 months, including any available contract option(s). The requirement has an estimated total value of £6,958,629 (excluding VAT) and this value includes any available contract option(s).

DBT leads a cross-government programme that combines both government (HMG), private sector and open-source datasets to build detailed global supply chain maps at commodity and company level using a third- party ring-fenced graph style database stored on DBT's own environment.

DBT intends to develop a multi-lot tender with each lot covering a dataset type. Additional dataset types are likely to be procured early in the new year.

The proposed structure will be:

- Lot 1: Generalist Company and Supply Level Data
Lot Value: £3,629,529 (excluding VAT)
Individual Total Contract Value: Up to £1,209,843 (inclusive of all extension periods)
Individual Annual Contract Value: Up to £403,281
Contacts to be awarded: 3 - with the option to award to a 4th contingent upon the availability of remaining budget

- Lot 2: Company-level Risk Information
Lot Value: £2,403,000 (excluding VAT)
Individual Total Contract Value: Up to £1,500,000 (inclusive of all extension periods)
Individual Annual Contract Value: Up to £500,000
Contacts to be awarded: 1 - with the option to award to a 2nd contingent upon the availability of remaining budget

- Lot 3: Country-level Risk Information
Lot Value: £926,100 (excluding VAT)
Individual Total Contract Value: Up to £926,100 (inclusive of all extension periods)
Individual Annual Contract Value: Up to £308,700
Contacts to be awarded: 1

More information

Additional text

DBT will be seeking multiple providers, including the potential for a single supplier to provide data for more than one lot. DBT's intention is for the estimated budget of £6,958,629 over 36 months to be allocated across the lots and the contracts, for clarity this figure shall not be available to a single provider and DBT is looking for a diversity of supply chain data from multiple suppliers. It is proposed that the contracts will begin in April 2025 and will be for a duration of 12-months with two optional 12-month extensions.

It is anticipated that the tender will be launched in January 2025 with contracts being awarded in February 2025 and commencing in April 2025.

This procurement is subject to internal governance, should the authority proceed to competition the full details of the requirement and ITT shall be published on Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder with participation instructions.

Please email commercialbpo@businessandtrade.gov.uk to express your interest in the bid and indicate which lot(s) you would be bidding for.

About the buyer

Contact name

Department for Business & Trade

Address

Old Admiralty Building, Whitehall
London
SW1A 2DY
England

Email

commercialbpo@trade.gov.uk