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title: "North Star Data Monitoring & Reporting"
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# North Star Data Monitoring & Reporting

Buyer: UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-0ad01a60-f993-4174-9ad6-313598694263

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## Summary

The UK Shared Business Services Limited has awarded the contract for the "North Star Data Monitoring & Reporting" project, valued at £109,910 GBP. The procurement involved a selective procurement method through a call-off from a dynamic purchasing system. The tender period ended on 17th May 2023, with the contract period scheduled from 5th June 2023 to 29th March 2024. The procurement falls under the classification of research and development services and related consultancy services in the CPV category. The project aims to collect and manage data related to the North Star Metric, helping the UK space sector measure success and improve data quality.

This award presents an opportunity for businesses in the research and development services sector, especially those offering consultancy services, to collaborate with UK Shared Business Services Limited. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are particularly suitable for this contract, given their focus on providing specialised and efficient solutions. Businesses with experience in data collection, management protocols, and forecasting would find this tender attractive. The project's focus on enhancing data quality and metric targets provides a valuable opportunity for companies looking to contribute to the UK space sector's growth and performance monitoring activities.

## Notice

*** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION *** This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under Crown Commercial Services RM6126 Research & Insights DPS Brief Description of Requirement The Agency's North Star Metric measures the total value of investment and income the Agency helps the UK space sector to raise. It's one of the corporate metrics overseen by our Executive Committee. UKSA use it to understand what success looks like, hold ourselves accountable for our results, and to show when course corrections are needed * Our approach involves collecting data from funding recipients about how UKSA funding has been used, with updates once every 6 months. * This process will be resource intensive for programme teams and the Evidence Team. Chasing incomplete returns will be time consuming, particularly after funding has ended as we won't have leverage. * The aim of this Mini Competition exercise is to identify a third party to save time, freeing up programme teams to focus on delivery. * It will also likely lead to better data as more time could be devoted to quality assurance and addressing non-response (e.g., using interviews with funding recipients to complement data returns). This work has six primary objectives: 1) Data collection and management protocol 2) Support UKSA in the collation and collection of North Star Metric (NSM) forecast data for live funding calls (initially up to March 2024), but with the possibility for extension), for c.10-20 funding calls 3) Collect actual NSM data for live projects/funding directly from funding recipients through data requests and follow up interviews (initially up to September 2023, but with the possibility for extension for a second reporting period in March 2024), for c.20-30 projects. Make comparisons between forecast and actual data and provide an explanatory commentary. 4) Retrospective NSM data collection for c.5 past projects. 5) NSM data report (initially in September, for the October ExCo, but with possibility to extend). 6) Give advice on the quality of forecast, actual and retrospective data, make recommendations for improving the quality/robustness of data and the metric, including whether we can develop targets for the metric. Additional information: ****THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION ***

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/862cbf0b-ff96-4dc0-9e0b-743ad5f46c67 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Dynamic |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 23 Jun 2023 |
| Submission deadline | 17 May 2023 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 20 Jun 2023 |
| Contract period | 4 Jun 2023 - 29 Mar 2024 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £109,910 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £109,910 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED |
| Locality | SWINDON |
| Post town | Swindon |
| Postcode | SN2 1UH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLK7 Gloucestershire and Wiltshire |
| ITL 3 | TLK71 Swindon |
| Local authority | Swindon |
| Electoral ward | Rodbourne Cheney |
| Westminster constituency | Swindon North |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | KNOW CONSULTING |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

### Codes

- 73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

## Release History

- 23 Jun 2023 at 10:11 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/862cbf0b-ff96-4dc0-9e0b-743ad5f46c67

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/862cbf0b-ff96-4dc0-9e0b-743ad5f46c67
  23rd June 2023 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/4f144069-fba3-4b6e-ae9d-8027fde07e5c

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