Provision of ONS Field Interviewers

CPV: Supply services of personnel including temporary staff

Procedure method

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Awarded without competition

Procurement threshold

Unspecified in notice

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Direct award (no call for competition)

GPA / WTO covered

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

6 Aug 2024, 16:09 BST

Last source update

6 Aug 2024, 16:09 BST

Authority reference

PU-24-0178

FTS notice number

2024/S 000-024723

Classification (CPV)

Supply services of personnel including temporary staff

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Published justification

ONS are currently nearing completion of a major survey transformation project, moving its Labour Force survey from an offline data collection survey (i.e interviewer administered data collection ) to a predominantly online survey (i.e self completion, as per census).

The survey design for the new transformed labour force survey requires field interviewers to visit addresses in certain areas who have not completed the online survey, in order to encourage completion and provide support. These addresses tend to be more clustered within major conurbations and 'harder to reach' community groups - such as those living in flats, younger people and those within the lower classifications of the index of multiple deprivation (i.e the more deprived). Given this profile of addresses to visit, ONS has a higher demand for interviewer resource in certain geographic areas and is struggling to recruit requisite interviewer resources into these areas through its current civil service recruitment process.

ONS Social Surveys Operations is responsible for collecting the data for the social and economic surveys commissioned by government departments and other public bodies. It acts as a bridge between the Government and the people, providing information and making it possible for policy makers to keep in touch with the circumstances and opinions of the general public and to plan for future public services to meet the needs of the population.

ONS is seeking to increase the extension available with Randstad Solutions Limited to 5 months, increasing the contract value by £300k. This is due to the numbers of additional staff being increased due to the continuation of the Labour force survey (LFS). Randstad recruited field staff meet all essential criteria to fulfil the role and had the necessary training needed to continue to carry out the work.

ONS may extend the contract by up to 5 months.

• Randstad Solutions LimitedAwarded supplierGB-COH: 02389033 450 Capability Green, Luton, UK, LU1 3LU

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