How to win: Local Price Data Collection Services for Consumer Price Inflation Statistics

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Local Price Collection is vital to the production of the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers' housing costs (CPIH), Household Costs Indices (HCIs) and Retail Prices Index (RPI). These measures are important indicators of how prices are changing within the UK economy. ONS currently collects approximately 100,000 prices each month from retail outlets across 141 locations, using a field workforce of fewer than 300 collectors. Local Price Collection involves the collection of price, product and associated information from retail outlets across specified locations. ONS identifies the products and locations from which information needs to be collected, with field collectors undertaking collection activity using mobile technology. Collected information is subsequently validated, quality checked and transferred into ONS systems. Under the current operating model, Local Price Collection is provided through an outsourced service. ONS is developing the future operating model and is considering an approach in which elements of collection may be undertaken in-house alongside outsourced field data collection. The future operating model is also being devel

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