PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

DBT Research: Evaluation Call Off Contract

Department for Business and Trade · published 31 Mar 2026. 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 ID3ba98130-8dba-4ea0-9627-e8de1a5279b5-890948
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-dbcc2e65-6d04-4c38-a062-e6cf8326a910
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-308315
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£6,000,000
award field
Tender value
£6,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
Category
services
CPV
73000000
Research and development services and related consultancy services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The scope of this contract will cover business and trade themes, including but not limited to productivity and economic growth, exporting and export promotion, supply chains, foreign direct investment and digital trade. Research must consider the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) evaluation criteria of relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability. This will be covering but not limited to process, theory based, impact and value for money types of evaluation as per the Magenta Book.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release31 Mar 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published26 Sept 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published12 Dec 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2027
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 31 Mar 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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