PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

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

UK RESEARCH & INNOVATION · published 6 Nov 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID19689a69-762e-4c30-9ff0-4069991fd1e4-871226
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-e1cab142-5974-4769-afe5-f2d1741d6815
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/Zj5uFppq
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£7,640,599
award field
Tender value
£7,640,599
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
goods
CPV
72000000
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery
Not stated
SN2 1FL
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

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

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release6 Nov 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published4 Jun 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Aug 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published1 Oct 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 6 Nov 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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