Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Development and Delivery of Feasibility Test for Online Collection of Crime Statistics
Authority: Office for National Statistics (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAbout the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
ONS is the UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and is the National Statistical Institute for the UK. Formally, it is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-Ministerial Department established by the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. It is responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population, and society at national, regional, and local levels. ONS plays a leading role in national and international good practice in the production of official statistics.
Introduction
ONS (the Authority) is currently undertaking a programme of development work to enhance the collection of crime statistics through the introduction of an online survey. This builds on development work conducted to date for the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).
This procurement intends to fulfil requirements by contracting with a single or multiple suppliers to test feasibility of collecting data online and improving statistics on crime victimisation and public perceptions of crime.
In 2026-27, we are aiming to set up and run a feasibility test to produce estimates of anti-social behaviour and perceptions of policing. The survey length is expected to average around 30 minutes and sample size requirement of approximately 15,000 interviews to allow for estimates for 7 priority Police Force Areas (PFAs) and a national estimate (England and Wales). Exact sample design and requirements will be agreed with the contractor. Following a successful feasibility test, ONS expects to launch a larger scale online survey (likely to be subject to a separate procurement exercise) in 2027-28.
We will also be using this feasibility test to pilot partially redesigned crime screeners and victimisation modules to assess progress and inform the next iteration of research and development.
ONS is seeking to contract with suppliers that can provide expertise in the following areas: -
-Questionnaire development and cognitive testing, particularly in transitioning face-to-face surveys online.
-Usability and cogability testing of online surveys.
-Survey design for online and multi-mode surveys (including sample design, weighting, and respondent selection approaches).
-Data collection and respondent engagement approaches for online surveys
ONS is seeking to procure up to four separate lots of work:
a. Questionnaire development and cognitive interviews for CSEW modules (modules to be confirmed)
b. Development of the screener and victimization modules for online completion.
c. End-to-end testing, usability and/or cogability testing for an online survey instrument
d. Survey design and fieldwork delivery for online survey feasibility test
Previous development work can be found here (links can ben accessed by copying and pasting into you internet browser):
Research on Transforming the Crime Survey for England and Wales Work package A: Developing and testing an online version of the CSEW questionnaire (2022)
27192314.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net/hubfs/27192314/CSEW ↗ files/CSEW Transformation Research Work Package A Main Report.pdf
Consultation response (7 November 2022)
consultations.ons.gov.uk/external-affairs/cri… ↗
consultations.ons.gov.uk/external-affairs/cri… ↗
Transformation of the Crime Survey for England and Wales - Discovery research on the redesign of multi-mode questions - Part 1
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandc… ↗
Crime Survey for England and Wales Transformation - Discovery Part 2: mental models research (8th Aug 2025)
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandc… ↗
Crime Survey for England and Wales Transformation - Discovery Part 3: Redesign of the screener module (2nd April 2025)
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandc… ↗
Discussion Areas for potential bidders engaging in Market Engagement?
-How would you recommend sampling one individual per household for the survey (for victimisation modules)?
-What would be your recommended approach to ensure the survey is inclusive - including for those who may feel unable to take part online?
-Can you recommend approaches for producing statistics using multi-modal data and impact on the continuity of a time series?
-What actions can be taken to maximise response rates?
-Can you suggest the technology required to run the survey and for ONS to receive and access the data?
-Can you recommend the extent of usability testing required?
Can you outline a suggested timeline to set up and deliver this work?
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Procedure terms & legal framework
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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
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- Services
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- Planned procurement
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- Above threshold (FTS publication)
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- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
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- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Jan 2026, 15:38 GMT
- Last source update
- 21 Jan 2026, 16:43 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 27 Apr 2026
- Authority reference
CS-26-143- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-005489- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060b6fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 8 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
21 Jan 2026 → 1 May 2026 · 6 dates- Planning notice published281 days ago21 Jan 2026, 15:38 GMT
- Market engagement264 days ago6 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
To register your interest, please email [email protected]. In the email subject please quote CS-26-143 C Jones
Within your email, please give a brief synopsis of what your organisation can offer in terms of the requirements detailed above.
There is a presentation scheduled to take place at 1pm on 4th February 2026. This will include an overview of the known requirements as well as any restrictions and limitations. If you would like to attend the session, please send a contact email and we will share a Teams invitation to the session.
Following on from the session, and once the engagement notice has closed, we plan on scheduling 1:1 supplier session to discuss the requirements and potential solutions in more detail. We also welcome written answers to our discussion points and a high-level overview of your suggested solution, where time does not allow you to attend a 1:1 session. Any written submission should be no more than 5 pages long and be submitted via the In-tend portal as correspondence.
Additional Information
This Exercise is NOT a pre-qualification or selection exercise and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process that may apply to any future potential procurement. It is intended to act as an awareness and information gathering exercise offering an opportunity for suppliers to advise us on the extent to which they potentially can provide some or all the services that ONS may require, in order to help ONS with its future intentions.
- Tender notice expected233 days ago9 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadline204 days ago8 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by184 days ago27 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts181 days ago1 May 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
7 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 Jan 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Jan 2026, 15:38 GMTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published21 Jan 2026, 15:48 GMTUK3
- Status changed to planned21 Jan 2026, 15:48 GMT
- Procurement method changed21 Jan 2026, 15:48 GMT
- Deadline published: 8 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST21 Jan 2026, 15:48 GMT
- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Jan 2026, 16:40 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Jan 2026, 16:43 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Updated guidance and viewing links within the document.
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2026-01: 1 release · 21 Jan 2026
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Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender