The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment’s Statistics Research Branch
(SRB), whose statisticians are out-posted from the Northern Ireland Statistics and
Research Agency, provides statistical, analytical and briefing services to the
Government of Northern Ireland in the area of Northern Ireland economic and labour
market statistics. SRB currently undertake 12 Northern Ireland surveys, which
involves processing approximately 80,000 business survey forms annually. It also
issues and collects some 6,000 forms for onward transmission to the Office for
National Statistics, without data entry. The vast majority of questionnaires issued
remain as paper forms. The content, number of surveys and survey sample sizes can
vary from year to year. Further information on DETI’s Statistics Research
Publications can be found at www.detini.gov.uk/deti-stats-index.htm.
The Successful Contractor must design, build and provide a Managed IT Service to
facilitate the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment’s Statistics Research
Branch to collect, edit and potentially analyse information from businesses for
official statistical purposes; as well as to design, build and operate a range of
Survey Support Services, which could include design, printing, distribution and
collection, online secure hosting, help desk, scanning, data capture and secure
storage.

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