Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2016-03-05
Buyer: The United Kingdom Sports Council (trading as UK Sport)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72300000 | 72312100: Data preparation services | 72313000: Data capture services | 72314000: Data collection and collation services | 72316000: Data analysis services
Estimated value: 797000 EUR
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The object of the contract is to provide UK Sport, the English Institute of Sport (EIS) and the National Governing Bodies of World Class Programme (WCPs) for Olympic and Paralympic sports with non-exclusive sports performance data for all Olympic and Paralympic sports and disciplines, in current and historic competitions, on an agreed complex data table structure. The relevant data will be used by UK Sport, EIS and WCPs in the analysis, manipulation, interpretation and communication to sports in order to make strategic investment decisions. The service requirement specifically focuses on a data feed, the collection, cleansing, matching, structuring of data across all Olympic and Paralympic sports and disciplines, for both current and historical competitions.
The services are for the delivery of historical and ‘live’ sports performance data across all Olympic and Paralympic sports (including individual disciplines within such sports). This covers all relevant international competitions at youth, junior and senior levels from: continental championships, world cups, regional games, (including equivalent competitions), world cups and championships, Commonwealth games, Olympic and Paralympic Games. Competitions that lead to Olympic and Paralympic qualification are also to be included. The service requirement specifically focuses on a data feed, the actual collection, cleansing, matching, structuring of data across all Olympic and Paralympic sport, for both current competitions as well as historical ones. Please refer to the ‘Additional Information’ at VI.3) below for further information.
UK Sport's requirement is for the supply of performance data (namely all Olympic and Paralympic sports and disciplines) on an agreed complex data table structure (the Services). The Services specifically focus on the supply of a data feed and the collection, cleansing, matching, structuring of data across all Olympic and Paralympic sport disciplines, for both current and historical competitions.
UK Sport published Prior Information Notice 2016/S 017-024865 to identify the number of suppliers of the Services in the market. Interested suppliers were given the opportunity to respond to the Prior Information Notice to express their interest in providing the Services to UK Sport.
After review of the responses received, UK Sport has clarified with interested suppliers that it is not seeking to build a platform to host data, data analytics or visualisation services, or web-scraping of data. Rather, the Services comprise the sourcing and supply of a data feed (as described above). Through this engagement exercise, UK Sport has determined that competition is absent as there is only 1 supplier that can fulfil its technical requirements. UK Sport will therefore proceed to rely upon Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and award a contract for the Services without prior publication of a contract notice.
The data services shall incorporate world rankings, personal (season) best performances, and world record progression. The data shall also contain final results, phase results, match results, and granular data for example up to split times and individual scores for judged based sports. The data will be delivered in two formats; a raw data feed through database replication, and through a ready to use online application. The data is for use by UK Sport, EIS and WCPs as well as consultancy services related to the data delivery. This will cover sports results and biographical data on athletes across the world.
Any appeals should be promptly brought to the attention of Sam Timmermans at the address specified in Section I) above.


Award value: 797000