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PS26178 - Catapult Economic Case
Authority: UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
CPV: Financial consultancy services (66171000)
Published contract value£247,745Exc. VAT
Contract ends 30 Nov 2027
Awarded to Frontier Economics Ltd
Contract starts 7 Sept 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement description***** THIS IS A CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION *****
This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition procurement exercise against RM6126 - Research & Insights DPS.
UK Research Innovation (UKRI) had a requirement for a Catapult Economic Case to be supplied. The contract was awarded after a competitive procedure.
The contract contains an optional time only extension clause where the end date can be extended to 31/05/2028 at the buyers discretion.
Published procurement details
- Dynamic purchasing system cited in notice
- Research & Insights · RM6126
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Buyer reference
- PS26178
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Yes
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision2 Sept 2026
- Contract starts7 Sept 2026
- Notice published7 Sept 2026
- Contract ends30 Nov 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITEDContracting authority
- Identifier
- sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/dXGP288m · GB-SRS
Suppliers named on the notice
- Frontier Economics LtdSupplier
- Identifier
- 03752719 · GB-COH
- 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-b5fd17-8f21bb1d-1e60-4787-b4fe-803f704b9def-2026-09-07T12:00:27+01:00
- Published
- 7 Sept 2026
- Latest update
- 7 Sept 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-8f21bb1d-1e60-4787-b4fe-803f704b9def
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-8f21bb1d-1e60-4787-b4fe-803f704b9def-1