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Department For Transport

Optimism Bias - Developing the Evidence Base

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71311200
Value£64k
Awarded20 Mar 2018
Published22 Mar 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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£64ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

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The brief

The aim of this research is to update the evidence base for the Optimism Guidance in WebTAG.

The current guidance has come under scrutiny for being outdated as it fails to capture specific characteristics, complexities, and risk profiles of schemes as well as depending on datasets from 2002.

This research project will acquire current cost datasets from various departments and organisations in order to update Optimism Bias uplift values.

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