--- title: "Provision of Card Spending Data" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-dea62fbd-6c4c-4637-bebf-5a2b806f04a7" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-dea62fbd-6c4c-4637-bebf-5a2b806f04a7" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-dea62fbd-6c4c-4637-bebf-5a2b806f04a7.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-dea62fbd-6c4c-4637-bebf-5a2b806f04a7.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS" published: "2025-01-27" --- # Provision of Card Spending Data Buyer: OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-dea62fbd-6c4c-4637-bebf-5a2b806f04a7 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-dea62fbd-6c4c-4637-bebf-5a2b806f04a7) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-dea62fbd-6c4c-4637-bebf-5a2b806f04a7.json) ## Summary The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced a procurement process for the "Provision of Card Spending Data" under the industry category of Data Services (CPV: 72300000). This tender is currently in the planning stage, with the deadline for market engagement ending on 10th February 2025. The project aims to collaborate with a UK data provider to develop economic and statistical applications based on card spending data, with an emphasis on high coverage and data granularity. This initiative is expected to enhance the ONS's capabilities in understanding and analysing consumer behaviour and retail performance across the United Kingdom. This tender presents a significant opportunity for businesses in the data services industry, particularly those with expertise in payment data, data analytics, and economic research. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs) are encouraged to apply. Companies that can provide detailed data tables on retail performance, merchant location spending, and spending by origin and channel will find this tender particularly relevant. The collaboration offers a platform for shared growth through cost-recovery and value-exchange models, potentially boosting the participating companies' technological capabilities and enhancing their reputation through association with ONS publications and insights. ## Notice The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have been developing card spending data for the public good in partnership with data providers in the payment industry since 2019. The work so far, in conjunction with similar work undertaken by other National Statistical Institutes, has demonstrated the clear potentials of card spending data as new data sources for Official Statistics production as well as for providing granular, timely insights into the national and local economies. ONS are seeking to work collaboratively with a UK data provider with high coverage and data granularity to jointly develop economic and statistical applications for ONS and wider UK Government based on card spending data. We expect working together on a cost-recovery basis, i.e. contract costs being proportionate to the actual costs incurred, in a value-exchange model. For example, when developing new data and insights for ONS' purposes, data scientists from both organisations may work together to solve technical issues that bring additional value to the data provider beyond the partnership. Similarly, the data provider may benefit from ONS publications and statistical improvements based on their data through an enhanced corporate reputation. We expect to build a strong partnership with the data provider, that goes beyond a transactional commercial arrangement, in maximising the public value of large transactional data. As part of the partnership, ONS would like to develop card spending data into new economic data that can improve National Accounts measurement and produce insights on consumer behaviour to: 1. understand retail performance of high streets and towns 2. understand spend by merchant location 3. understand spend by origin & channel. Further requirements include permissions for ONS to regularly publish articles and aggregated insights/datasets and to enable cross-government access to the data through a secure data platform (such as the Integrated Data Service) to link to other government key data assets to produce further innovative, cross-cutting insights. ONS require the following information, in the form of 3 data tables. *Retail Performance of High Streets and Town *Spend by merchant location *Spend by origin and destination The full details of the variables required within each of the tables are included in the attached document "Request for Information - ROM Costs". The data tables will be aggregated to monthly totals (or more granular, subject to statistical disclosure control not affecting the utility of the data) and provided to ONS a monthly or quarterly basis. If you are interested in this opportunity and are able to provide the required variables detailed in "Request for Information - ROM Costs", please complete this document and submit via InTend before the closing date. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ef4670bc-8c7c-4fbe-8386-b5fdbce08c92 | | Notice type | Planned Procurement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 27 Jan 2025 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 10 Feb 2025 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS | | Locality | NEWPORT | | Post town | Newport | | Postcode | NP10 8XG | | Country | Wales | | ITL 1 | TLL Wales | | ITL 2 | TLL5 South East Wales | | ITL 3 | TLL54 Monmouthshire and Newport | | Local authority | Newport | | Electoral ward | Tredegar Park and Marshfield | | Westminster constituency | Newport West and Islwyn | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ### Codes - 72300000 - Data services ## Release History - 27 Jan 2025 at 11:21 - Planning - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ef4670bc-8c7c-4fbe-8386-b5fdbce08c92 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ef4670bc-8c7c-4fbe-8386-b5fdbce08c92 27th January 2025 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/14d53ff6-b3d5-4cd2-99c9-26aca876c857 Request for Information - ROM Costs ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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