Contract for the provision of the Crime Survey for England and Wales

Tender description

The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) contract for research & data services supports the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) strategic objective of reliable and trusted data, which informs policy makers, Parliament and the public about crime. The services improve knowledge of the volume and changing nature of criminality and victimisation which, in turn, informs the public policy response to crime. The services under the CSEW contract act as a research and data source for ONS to produce crime statistics and inform the development of public policy response to crime. The Contractor provides the rolling annual datasets, on a quarterly basis, based on research interviews with a representative sample of: (a) Households and adults' resident in England and Wales; this covers their experience of crime in the previous 12 months, attitudes to crime and crime-related issues, awareness and use of crime prevention measures and essential demographic and background information to inform further analyses. (b) Children aged 10 to 15 years living in such households; this covers similar topics to the main interview but with a narrower focus on experience of personal crime and issues related specifically to children, such as bullying. Lot 1: ONS is seeking to increase the sample size for the survey, following requests from the Home Office and the UK Government's Implementation Unit, with an increase in the target number of interviews to 70,000 per year by 2024. This will include a boost to the face-to-face interview numbers and the introduction of a longitudinal panel element to the survey with further interviews conducted by telephone at 12 month intervals. Additional information: The total value at the time of conclusion of the contract in Section V.2.4 (Information on value of the contract/lot/ concession) does not take into consideration indexation. Under the terms of the CSEW contract, the Contractor is permitted to increase charges in line with an agreed inflationary indexation adjustment. As such, the total value of the contract after indexation is £19,234,018.23.