Contract award · 10 Jan 2022

Provision of Alcohol Data (Off Trade)

Office for National Statistics awarded “Provision of Alcohol Data (Off Trade)” to A.C. Nielsen Company Limited for £49,819.

No competitionIT servicesWales

Awarded without open competition

Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.

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Key facts

Buyer
Office for National Statistics · Non departmental government body
Value
£49,819.16
Procedure
Single tender action (below threshold)
Sector
IT services · Data services (CPV 72300000)
Region
Wales
Timeline
  1. Contract date10 Jan 2022
  2. Published13 Mar 2025Published 1158 days after the contract date

Description

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) wishes to make estimates of household expenditure on alcoholic beverages as a component of National Accounts and is published separately in Consumer Trends, see link. https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/satelliteaccounts/bulletins/consumertrends/apriltojune2021 To assist in these estimates, it wishes to establish fully representative prices of all categories of alcoholic beverages purchased for personal consumption within the United Kingdom. Only purchases made by individuals, from legitimate outlets are to be recorded in the estimates. The ONS will combine this price data with volume data received from HM Customs and Excise to derive final estimates of household expenditure on alcoholic beverages in the UK. The contractor will supply price and volume data to the ONS to fulfil the price requirement of these estimates. This data should represent all Off Trade sales of alcoholic beverages by organisations directly to the households, n…

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