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BEIS

DSIT Market Research Agency Contract

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£3.0m
Awarded8 Aug 2023
Published17 Oct 2023
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£3.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£3.2m

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION ***** This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the Crown Commercial Services Research & Insights RM6126 DPS.

Brief Description of Requirement Following machinery of government changes, the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has been formed.

DSIT is looking to appoint a research agency under the Research & Insights framework under RM6126, conducting market research and providing behavioural insights services.

This will be a two-year contract, with the option of extending for a further year subject to budgetary approval.

The maximum spending threshold for the two-year contract will be £2,000,000 and the spending threshold for the one-year extension (which would be subject to budgetary approval) would be £1,000,000.

The total budget for all activity (including any extensions) is a maximum of £3,000,000.00 excluding VAT.

Please note, these figures include contingency for crisis communications.

This will include providing social, economic and market research and behavioural insights to support DSIT communications and our aim to raise awareness and understanding of the UK's Science and Technology sector offering across a range of audiences.

Main campaigns include GREAT Campaign (including Unicorn Kingdom, GREAT Talent and StudyUK) and Skills for Life (including CyberFirst, Upskill in Cyber and Advance Digital Skills)

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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This will include providing social, economic

This will include providing social, economic and market research and behavioural insights to support DSIT communications and our aim to raise awareness and understanding of the UK's Science and Technology sector offering across a range of audiences.

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