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UK RESEARCH & INNOVATION

The Funding Service (TFS) Optimisation & Early Life Support (ELS)

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£7.6m
Awarded4 Jun 2025
Published6 Nov 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£7.6mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£8.3m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

For this call off under the DOS 6 framework, UKRI was seeking a delivery partner to support the delivery of several functional and non-functional work packages.

The objectives are to: - Reduce Manual Processing - Enable Flexibility through Continuous Improvement - Increase Volume Throughput through Efficiency and Standardisation The delivery partner will play a key role in the end to end delivery of each work package, providing for example Development, User Centric Design and Test Assurance resources to support the UKRI delivery team.

The delivery partner must: - Adhere to Government Digital Standards (GDS) - Have strong experience in delivering at pace within similar organisations - Be able to demonstrate that you have appropriate controls and mechanisms in place to ensure code quality - Be familiar with working within both Waterfall and Agile Delivery Constructs

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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For this call off under the DOS

For this call off under the DOS 6 framework, UKRI was seeking a delivery partner to support the delivery of several functional and non-functional work packages.

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The delivery partner will play a key

The delivery partner will play a key role in the end to end delivery of each work package, providing for example Development, User Centric Design and Test Assurance resources to support the UKRI delivery team.

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The delivery partner must

The delivery partner must:.

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Have strong experience in delivering at pace

Have strong experience in delivering at pace within similar organisations.

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Be able to demonstrate that you have

Be able to demonstrate that you have appropriate controls and mechanisms in place to ensure code quality.

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Source & provenance
OCID
19689a69-762e-4c30-9ff0-4069991fd1e4
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
UKRI-4825
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