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Published 25 Feb 2026, 15:36 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Finance & Investment Decisions Survey 2025 (Analysis)

Official notice

Authority: Department for Business & Trade (Central government)

Below threshold - without competition
Sectors: Research & Development (R&D) (73) Delivery: UK
Awarded value£50,000published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 6 Feb 2026no call for competition
Awarded to Oxford Brookes University

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The DBT requirement is for specialist econometric analysis of the Business Finance and Investment Decision Making Survey results. IFF Research will conduct the survey in Autumn Winter 2025. The survey is a structured, quantitative telephone survey of approximately 1,500 UK businesses to provide evidence on business finance and investment decision making processes and and unlike in the previous two waves, this time there will be additional emphasis in ensuring that the survey covers key issues around personal guarantees.

Appointing Professor Marc Cowling of Oxford Brookes enables DBT to utilise his significant expertise on SME finance, familiarity with the methodology, questionnaire design, and analytical requirements ensuring efficiency and quality.

In addition to his familiarity is continuity and comparability across previous survey waves 2018, 2023, allowing the production of robust, longitudinal insights that can inform policy.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
Delivery: UK
73110000 Research services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Below threshold - without competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
25 Feb 2026, 15:36 GMT
Last source update
25 Feb 2026, 15:36 GMT
Authority reference
PR_5008
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-017016
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065c5f Find a Tender

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Contract details notice published
    25 Feb 2026, 15:36 GMT
    UK7

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £50,0001 contract exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 6 Feb 2026
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Oxford Brookes University£50,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • Finance & Investment Decisions Survey 2025 (Analysis) · Oxford Brookes University

    Signed
    6 Feb 2026
    Value
    £50,000
    Period
    6 Feb 2026 – 30 Sept 2026
    Status
    active

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Department for Business & Trade

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PZZJ-6312-QTTD Old Admiralty Building, London, London, SW1A 2DYContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • Oxford Brookes UniversityAwarded supplier Gypsy Lane, Headington,, Oxford, South East, OX3 0BPContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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