Published date: 17 August 2021

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: 7 September 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data services - 72300000

  • Database services - 72320000

  • Recruitment services - 79600000

    • Job search services - 79611000

Location of contract

NP10 8XG

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

PU-22-0100

Published date

17 August 2021

Closing date

7 September 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

8 September 2021

Contract end date

9 September 2021

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

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.
ONS is looking to identify and engage with industry partners to help bring third party data and/or expertise to access better and more relevant data sources. This will help improve the quality and usefulness of official statistics about our population, society, and economy that decision makers, businesses and citizens so urgently need.

ONS is seeking to develop partnerships with organisations that hold information about online job adverts in the UK. We are looking to use the data as a proxy measure for changing labour demand by producing a measure of online job adverts split by Local Authority. We would be looking to make this series publicly available on our website as part of a regular release. As well as publishing aggregate information, we are also interested to understand if organisations would support the sharing of microdata across government departments.
The data will need to include the following variables at a minimum:
-Job description
-Low-level geography classification (Local Authority at a minimum, or information to be able to derive this in-house)
-Job title
-Additional variables relating to job adverts which would also be useful include:
-Additional geographic labels such as Travel to Work Areas, Local Enterprise Partnerships
-Standard industry classifications
-Standard occupation classifications
-The skills required for the job
-The original posting date or the length of posting
-Salary

The types of organisations that should consider contacting us include:
-Providers offering substantial coverage of the whole UK online job advert market.
-Types of support could include:
-Supply of bulk data extracts
-Supply of relevant metadata and/or documentation on how data enters the system and how it is processed
-Provision of aggregated data as defined by ONS

What can a partnership with ONS offer?
An opportunity to work with a world class statistics organisation, to create better and more timely statistics to be used by all for the benefit of the public good. There is a possibility for this work to be funded if all requirements are met by the provider.

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').
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Additional text

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