PROVISION OF CARD SPEND DATA

Tender description

To inform policy making, as we emerge from the pandemic, the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser (OCEA) in the Scottish Government wish to procure anonymised credit/debit card spend data with sufficient market share and national coverage to allow us to model geographic trends in spending over time. OCEA wish to procure anonymised credit/debit card data to understand spending patterns in Scotland, especially prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic and through the next financial year. This data will be used to map spending in our cities but also to conduct bespoke analysis as and when required based on geographies defined using postcodes. Within the constraints of commercial confidentiality, the data should allow for analysis of trends in specific spending categories, such as groceries, bars/ restaurants etc (or however these are defined). Ideally, the data will allow for assessment of changes in the home locations of those spending money, to allow analysis of the geographic “footprint”.