Market and economic research; polling and statistics

Tender description

UK Shared Business Services Ltd on behalf of the contracting authority is putting in place a contract for the purchase of Health Life Sciences Database. The Office for Life Sciences (OLS) is a joint unit of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), with the objective of maximising the UK’s strengths in science and research to support the development and adoption of 21st century health and life sciences technology, delivering the best health outcomes and increasing wider growth and prosperity. In 2009, OLS decided to collect its own company information. OLS procured a contract to establish a life sciences company dataset that could address these data requirements. This dataset has since been maintained and updated annually. OLS now wishes to procure a 2 years contract to produce annual updates to the health life sciences company dataset, report and associated products for 2018 and 2019. OLS wishes to procure a 2 years contract to produce annual updates to the health life sciences company dataset, report and associated products for 2018 and 2019. The scope of the project is outlined below. For each year: 1) collect data on health life sciences companies in the UK which may be newly formed, newly operating in the life sciences sectors, or newly identified. Validate, analyse, and segment these companies according to OLS established methodology and segmentation, 2) match companies with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and FAME datasets to collect additional information such as company status, employment, turnover etc, 3) production and delivery of an annual final matched master dataset for life sciences companies in Excel updated with the annual data, 4) production and delivery of a time series database in Excel, for years up to and including 2018 and then 2019, in order to produce comparable analysis over time, 5) provide analysis on each annual dataset to the same breadth, standards and scope as currently available in the 2017 published data, 6) provide a set of documents for publication, 7) production of a Tableau workbook updated with the annual data including all the existing agreed visualisations. All submissions will be assessed in accordance with the public contracts Regulations 2015, for procurement values that exceed Regulation 5 (threshold amounts). This procurement will be managed electronically via the Crown Commercial Service’s e-Sourcing Suite. To participate in this procurement, participants shall first be registered on the e-Sourcing Suite. If bidders have not yet registered on the eSourcing Suite, this can be done online at: https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/emptoris by following the link Supplier eSourcing Registration Please note that, to register, bidders must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. Note: registration may take some time please ensure that you allow a sufficient amount of time to register. Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/becomea-crown-commercial-service-supplier Once you have registered on the eSourcing Suite, a registered user can express an interest for a specific procurement. This is done by emailing ExpressionOfInterest@crowncommercial.gov.uk Your email must clearly state: the name and reference for the procurement you wish to register for; your organisations full name as a registered supplier; the name and contact details for the registered individual sending the email. Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will process the email and then enable the bidder to access the procurement online via the e-Sourcing Suite. The registered user will receive a notification email to alert them once this has been done. As a user of the e-Sourcing Suite you will have access to Emptoris email messaging service which facilitates all messages sent to you and from you in relation to any specific RFX event. Please note it is your responsibility to access these emails on a regular basis to ensure you have sight of all relevant information applicable to this opportunity. For technical assistance on use of the e-Sourcing Suite please contact Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Helpdesk (Not UK SBS Ltd): Freephone: 0345010 3503 email: eenablement@crowncommercial.gov.uk Training support to respond to a requirement is available to bidders at: http://www.uksbs.co.uk/services/procure/Pages/supplier.aspx