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Contract Award Notice (Extension) Provision of Evaluation Research Support
Authority: DfTc - Department for Transport
CPV: Research and development services and related consultancy services (73000000)
Published contract value£125,000Exc. VAT
Contract ends 13 Jun 2027
Awarded to Frontier Economic Limited
Contract starts 14 Aug 2025
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionContract Award Notice: Extension of Provision of Evaluation Research Support
This Contract was initially awarded following a competition using CCS Framework RM6126 Research & Insights.
An additional £125,000 has been awarded through the activation of the Optional Extension Clause within the Contract terms.
The Department is currently assessing options for the future delivery of this service. Subject to requirements, this may include launching a new procurement competition, which will be timed to ensure that a replacement contract is awarded once the additional extension funding has been fully utilised.
Published procurement details
- Dynamic purchasing system cited in notice
- Research & Insights · RM6126
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- tender_356398/1512149
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Yes
- Published tender value
- £625,000.00
- Min Value
- £125,000.00
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Tender contract period: Start date
- Tender contract period: End date
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- SW1P 4DR; London, United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Notice published29 Jun 2023
- Award decision14 Aug 2025
- Contract starts14 Aug 2025
- Contract ends13 Jun 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- DfTc - Department for TransportContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Frontier Economic LimitedSupplier
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-8f7b4d41-f065-4b35-a8d5-bff35ca971d2-2025-09-01T10:14:02+01:00
- Published
- 29 Jun 2023
- Latest update
- 1 Sept 2025
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-8f7b4d41-f065-4b35-a8d5-bff35ca971d2
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-8f7b4d41-f065-4b35-a8d5-bff35ca971d2-2