Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Scottish Government · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Smart Data Foundry
- Value
- £148,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Research & development · Research services (CPV 73110000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 011640-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Feb 2026
- Published10 Feb 2026Published 6 days after the contract date
Description
The Scottish Government’s Labour Market Statistics team has awarded a contract for a feasibility study to assess the potential of using anonymised financial data to enhance national and sub-national labour market statistics. The feasibility study will establish if and how we can extract and assess labour market trends such as employment, unemployment and economic inactivity from financial data such as bank transactions, payroll records, or other administrative financial data. The ultimate aim of this study is to establish whether or not this type of data and methodology could add valuable insights to our existing statistics on an ongoing basis (subject to future procurement activities). Objectives - Evaluate the feasibility of using financial data to enhance Scottish labour market statistics on employment, unemployment and economic inactivity. - Develop a Scotland-specific dataset using anonymised financial data for feasibility analysis - Validate Scotland-specific dataset against off…
About the supplier
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