RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · award

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Science & Engineering Salary Benchmarking

Business ServicesCPV 73200000
Value£26,800
Awarded17 Aug 2025
Published18 Sept 2025
RegionNationwide

£26,800 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
AON UK LIMITED London
Awarded value£27k
Award date17 Aug 2025

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

Who to contact
commercialexcellence@ics.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£27ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This sits below the typical range for Research & Development contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Science Capability team seek specialist consultancy services that can provide access to a comprehensive and well-maintained salary database.

The Science Capability team would then use this data to conduct detailed comparisons and analyses with our own government data on science and engineering roles and pay.

The database provided by the consultancy must include a wide range of salaries across various S&E industry roles, with particular focus on specific science roles (for example, roles in specific scientific fields, rather than just ‘research scientist’).

DSIT delivered a market engagement exercise on two frameworks RM6187 & RM6126 to test market interest and capabilities.

The EOIs that returned demonstrated lack of capability from the market to deliver this ‘niche’ dataset and that there was less interest given the low value.

Subsequently, following market engagement Aon has been identified as the only suitable supplier to deliver this requirement given the granularity of their dataset.

Subsequently Sch.

5 para.

5 of the Procurement Act 2023 is used as the following conditions are met in relation to this public contract—(a) due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and (b) there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Science Capability team seek specialist consultancy

The Science Capability team seek specialist consultancy services that can provide access to a comprehensive and well-maintained salary database.

02

The database provided by the consultancy must

The database provided by the consultancy must include a wide range of salaries across various S&E industry roles, with particular focus on specific science roles (for example, roles in specific scientific fields, rather than just ‘research scientist’).

03

The EOIs that returned demonstrated lack

The EOIs that returned demonstrated lack of capability from the market to deliver this ‘niche’ dataset and that there was less interest given the low value.

04

Subsequently, following market engagement Aon has been

Subsequently, following market engagement Aon has been identified as the only suitable supplier to deliver this requirement given the granularity of their dataset.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
DSIT delivered a market engagement exercise on two frameworks RM6187 & RM6126 to test market interest and capabilities.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059cd8
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
057593-2025
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