RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Office for National Statistics

Questionnaire Management Services PU-17-0382 - AWARD

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Value£65.1m
Awarded27 Jul 2017
Published11 Jan 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£65.1mtotal contract value
median £92k
this tender£0£70.3m

This is a large award for Printed Matter & Publishing — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,467 valued Printed Matter & Publishing tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Contracting Authority is procuring an integrated service for the production and dispatch of up to 16 000 000 paper questionnaire packs to both households and communal establishments in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, for both the 2019 Rehearsal and 2021 Census.

The Services will provide the data capture and coding on all returned paper questionnaires, as well as the coding required of residual data from the Contracting Authority's online capture system.

The Questionnaire Management Services comprise: (1) Print Service: to support the collection of census data and census coverage survey data, the Services will print, personalise, enclose and dispatch up to 16 000 000 paper questionnaire packs.

The Services will also provide the postal solutions for the dispatch of paper questionnaire packs to households and Communal Establishments in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; (2) Data Capture and Coding Service: capture and code questionnaire data, provide secure destruction of all paper questionnaires and produce images of all captured paper questionnaires.

The Services will also code residual data from the Contracting Authority's online capture system.

More information about the Contracting Authority, the Census, the Programme and the 2021 Census can be found on the Contracting Authority's website: www.ons.gov.uk Participants should note that, in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the Contracting Authority intends to publish the Invitation to Participate (ITP) document and Agreement, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.

Further information on transparency can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-and-contracting-transparency-requirements-guidance The Contracting Authority expressly reserves the right: (i) Not to award any Contract as a result of the Procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; and (ii) To make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the competition; and in no circumstances will the Contracting Authority be liable for any costs incurred by the Participant.

Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of Participant.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Contracting Authority is procuring an integrated

The Contracting Authority is procuring an integrated service for the production and dispatch of up to 16 000 000 paper questionnaire packs to both households and communal establishments in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, for both the 2019 Rehearsal and 2021 Census.

02

The Services will provide the data capture

The Services will provide the data capture and coding on all returned paper questionnaires, as well as the coding required of residual data from the Contracting Authority's online capture system.

03

(1) Print Service: to support the collection

(1) Print Service: to support the collection of census data and census coverage survey data, the Services will print, personalise, enclose and dispatch up to 16 000 000 paper questionnaire packs.

04

The Services will also provide the postal

The Services will also provide the postal solutions for the dispatch of paper questionnaire packs to households and Communal Establishments in England, Wales and Northern Ireland;.

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(2) Data Capture and Coding Service: capture

(2) Data Capture and Coding Service: capture and code questionnaire data, provide secure destruction of all paper questionnaires and produce images of all captured paper questionnaires.

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