Published date: 18 January 2024

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


Closing: 6 September 2023, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

SW1A 2DY

Value of contract

£0 to £130,000

Procurement reference

tender_372186/1302180

Published date

18 January 2024

Closing date

6 September 2023

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

10 January 2024

Contract end date

31 May 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION *****
This procurement is being concluded following a competitive procurement exercise.

Brief Description of Requirement

The aim of this work is to map consumer product regulations to a number of different trade and production dictionaries.

Specifically, the objectives for this research are to:

1) Map the products under these regulations to trade and production data dictionaries, including Harmonised Standard (HS) and Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes (latest editions). These are used to categorise products in trade data, used internationally to identify common or similar products;
2) Map these regulations across to manufacturing datasets (the ONS ProdCom publication), which use a different product code structure;
3) Identify the types of businesses (sectors) most likely to be involved in the manufacture or retail of products captured under the regulations, using the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) framework;
4) Assess whether products that are mapped to regulations, require conformity assessment from a third-party body (known as Approved Bodies or Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs)).

We intend to use the outputs from this project for a number of purposes including decision making on sector interventions, support policy developments including the Product Safety Review, and provide an improved evidence base for trade negotiations.

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Award information

Awarded date

12 October 2023

Contract start date

10 January 2024

Contract end date

31 May 2024

Total value of contract

£116,128.80

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

The University of Sussex

Address

Sussex House, Falmer, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, BN1 9RH, UNITED KINGDOM

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Polaris House
Swindon
SN2 1FF
England

Email

professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk