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Published 29 Jul 2025, 10:05 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Office for Students: Provision of Support Services for TRAC

Official notice

Authority: Office for Students (Central government)

Direct award
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: South West (UKK1)
Awarded value£530,000published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 11 Aug 2025no call for competition
Awarded to KPMG

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) is an activity-based costing system developed for the UK higher education sector and implemented in UK publicly funded higher education institutions. This contract is for the Provision of TRAC technical helpdesk support to UK HE institutions required to submit TRAC returns.

Maintaining and updating the TRAC guidance and reporting requirements, including taking account of changes to financial accounting standards and meeting stakeholder needs.

Carrying out reviews of the TRAC methodology to improve data quality and utility and meet multiple stakeholder requirements.

Supporting the TRAC Development Group in its oversight of the TRAC system.

Supporting the UK Regulators and Funders, including the use of the TRAC system to inform funding policy for teaching and research, and for informing pricing of research grants and contracts.

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The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
Delivery: South West
79000000 Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
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
29 Jul 2025, 10:05 BST
Last source update
3 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMT
Authority reference
PRN2250
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-070568
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area
South West (UKK1)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0567ad Find a Tender
Why no open competition
Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
Published justification

The TRAC support service is a specialist contract requiring expertise in the TRAC system, understanding of methodology, and capacity to provide support across the UK HE sector, to OfS, SFC, Medr, DFE(NI) and UKRI to support use of TRAC data for informing funding policy, for use by UKRI for funding research grants and contracts, and to inform government policy for DfE and the devolved administrations.

The OfS is currently implementing changes to its data platform and arrangements for collecting data from institutions (including change to the TRAC return template). Therefore, continuity of helpdesk support to the sector during the next TRAC return will be essential to avoid disproportionate burden for HE institutions during this transition period.

Additionally, continuity is required in order that important developments in the TRAC system which involve implementation of complex technical changes to the TRAC requirements that have been developed and recently piloted under the current service contract can be implemented successfully and without disruption in the helpdesk support.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

27 Aug 2025 → 3 Nov 2025 · 2 dates
  1. Standstill ends
    27 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
  2. Notice published358 days ago
    3 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMT

Notice history

4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Jul 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    29 Jul 2025, 10:05 BST
    UK5
  2. Contract award notice published
    15 Aug 2025, 16:05 BST
    UK6
  3. Contract signature expected
    28 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled
  4. Contract details notice published
    3 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMT
    UK7

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £530,0001 award exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 12 Sept 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
KPMG1 Sept 2025 – 31 Aug 2026£530,00011 Aug 2025Awarded

Contracts

  • Contract 1 · KPMG

    Signed
    12 Sept 2025
    Value
    £530,000
    Period
    15 Sept 2025 – 14 Sept 2026
    Status
    active

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Office for Students

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PYZM-6681-RPZP Westward House, Lime Kiln Close, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, South West, BS34 8SRContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • KPMG LLPAwarded supplierGB-COH: OC301540 15 Canada Square, London, London, E14 5GLContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender