Expired contract

Facilitation of Public Engagement Events

Details

Supplier(s)
Human Capital Index Limited t/a Labyrinth Coaching and Counselling
Duration
2 months
Topic
Seminar organisation services
Published
1 April 2025

Tender description

Facilitation of Stakeholder Engagement Events supporting the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation team's discovery phase toward establishing harmonised standards for sex and gender identity data collection across government. The harmonisation of principles ensures consistency in definition and classification used in data collection across the Government. Discovery phase of work encompasses the: • Designing and facilitating of 5 Regional Stakeholder Events (London, Cardiff, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Belfast) aimed at gathering diverse perspectives from data users, collectors, processors, and respondents to inform research on user and respondent needs. • Recognising the potentially divergent viewpoints on these topics, the facilitation will focus on identifying sufficient common ground to progress ONS's user research. • Deliverables include: o Two one-hour design sessions with ONS in March to develop the agenda and facilitation approach o One 30-minute preparatory session with the team and Director General, and o Facilitation of five 3-hour events (each followed by a 30- minute debrief). ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published1 April 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 April 2025
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date31 May 2025

About the buyer

The Office for National Statistics operates as a non-departmental public body accountable to the UK Statistics Authority, and buys through its own central Procurement Unit. Smaller orders are handled by delegated purchasing officers across the organisation. Larger opportunities are scrutinised by a Business Investment Group before going to a Portfolio Scrutiny Committee. Live tenders are listed on Contracts Finder, the government-wide search for public sector opportunities. Full tender documents sit on the InTend portal, where suppliers register to bid. A commercial pipeline of upcoming work is published online and updated periodically.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Office for National Statistics's contract awards have been in IT services, software and information systems and office and computing equipment.

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  • 79951000 · Seminar organisation services

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