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title: "Provision of Card Spending Data"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-050a59"
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# Provision of Card Spending Data

Buyer: OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-050a59

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## Summary

The Office for National Statistics (ONS), a central government public authority, has recently amended its contract with VISA Europe Limited for the "Provision of Card Spending Data". Situated in Newport, UK, the ONS initially awarded the contract to VISA Europe Limited through a direct award process, highlighting the intent for additional and repeat services to avoid technical discrepancies with an alternate provider. The contract, managing services in the data industry category, commenced on 30 May 2025 and is set to conclude on 29 May 2028. The most recent amendment, dated 15 August 2025, entails the provision of two additional data tables and related historical data, ensuring a broader data offering for statistical purposes.

This tender offers significant business growth opportunities for data service providers, particularly those experienced in large-scale transactional data projects. The collaboration is designed for providers capable of delivering extensive and granular data insights, enhancing the measurement of consumer behaviour and economic activity. Businesses in the data analytics and payment industries, especially those with capabilities in handling and integrating comprehensive datasets on a national level, are well-suited to engage with similar procurement opportunities. The focus on enriching official statistics underscores the potential for providers to strengthen their market position and gain enhanced reputation benefits through strategic partnerships with government bodies like the ONS.

## 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. In the next phase of our statistical development, 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 such as this recent publication on card spending flows across UK regions, 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, as this recent joint publication by the Competition and Markets Authority and ONS. 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 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.

### Procurement Information

Additional or repeat goods, services or works The public contract concerns the supply of goods, services or works by the existing supplier which are intended as an extension to, or partial replacement of, existing goods, services or works in circumstances where- a change in supplier would result in the contracting authority receiving goods, services or works that are different from, or incompatible with, the existing goods, services or works, and the difference or incompatibility would result in disproportionate technical difficulties in operation or maintenance. A change in Supplier would result in the lack of all requirements being met in its entirety.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/049558-2025 |
| Notice type | UK10 - Contract Change Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Direct award |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 18 Aug 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 29 Apr 2025 |
| Contract period | 14 Aug 2025 - 29 May 2028 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £376,310 |
| Contracts value | £418,821 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## 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 |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | VISA EUROPE |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72300000 - Data services

## Release History

- 18 Aug 2025 at 13:58 - ContractAmendment - UK10 - Contract Change Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/049558-2025
- 6 Jun 2025 at 09:30 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/030477-2025
- 9 May 2025 at 08:52 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019942-2025
- 30 Apr 2025 at 13:45 - Award - UK5 - Transparency Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018060-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/049558-2025
  18th August 2025 - Contract change notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/030477-2025
  6th June 2025 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019942-2025
  9th May 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018060-2025
  30th April 2025 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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