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Written question asked by Seema Malhotra (Labour) on Wednesday, 11 January 2023, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 16 January 2023. It was answered by Jeremy Quin (Conservative) on Thursday, 19 January 2023 on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

Government Departments: Contracts

Question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of business (a) awareness of and (b) satisfaction with the Contracts Finder and Find a Tender services.

Answer

The data for the Contracts Finder service and the Find a Tender Service is listed below.

Contracts Finder unique users by year, based on cookies which store user information and preferences between website visits. Starting in 2020, users were able to opt out of cookies, meaning that it became a much less reliable indicator of uniques users - and led to a drop in the reported number of unique users recorded using this methodology.

Contracts Finder service unique users by year:

2017 - 650,003

2018 - 656,661

2019 - 780,951

2020 - 533,809 - users begin to be able to opt out of cookies

2021 - 187,905

2022 - 169,530

Find a Tender Service unique users by year:

2021 - 90,503

2022 - 81,515

No assessment of business awareness is available. And, although user research is continually conducted with public and private sector users of both Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, no specific data is available with regards to user satisfaction. The ongoing user research is used to identify areas of improvement for both systems to meet ongoing user needs.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
121030
Session
2022-23
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Contracts Databases Government departments Procurement
Link
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