Planning

Provision of Air Fares Booking Data

  • Office for National Statistics

F01: Prior information notice (prior information only)

Notice identifier: 2021/S 000-008717

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-02a97e

Published 23 April 2021, 11:44am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Office for National Statistics

Newport

Email

chris.tait@ext.ons.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UK - United Kingdom

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.ons.gov.uk

one.3) Communication

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Ministry or any other national or federal authority

one.5) Main activity

Other activity

Production of national statistics


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Provision of Air Fares Booking Data

Reference number

PU-22-0018

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 72300000 - Data services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

There is growing interest in measuring the impacts of the airline industry on the wider economy and society through the production of Official Statistics. To achieve this objective, the Office for National Statistics requires the acquisition of air fares data that constitutes individual records of flight bookings including variables such as flight and service characteristics, trip duration and stopovers, purchasing mechanism and price data to be used in the production of a range of statistics that will assist ONS in achieving its mission to provide high quality statistics and analysis to inform the UK, improve lives and build the future.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UK - United Kingdom

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

There is growing interest in measuring the impacts of the airline industry on the wider economy and society through the production of Official Statistics. To achieve this objective, the Office for National Statistics requires the acquisition of air fares data that constitutes individual records of flight bookings including variables such as flight and service characteristics, trip duration and stopovers, purchasing mechanism and price data to be used in the production of a range of statistics that will assist ONS in achieving its mission to provide high quality statistics and analysis to inform the UK, improve lives and build the future.This agreement will be tendered under the terms of the ONS Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Data Sources and Services including Expertise (Data SaSiE) which are available on the ONS tendering portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ons/aspx/Home. If your organisation would like to receive more details of this opportunity when it is advertised then please register your interest for the DPS on in-tend. As a mimimum, this opportunity will be advertised to organisations accepted for lots 7 and 8of the the Data SaSiE.If you have any questions regarding this process please contact Data.Acquisition@ons.gov.uk.

two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice

24 May 2021


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No