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Understanding Business Decisions and Behaviour: Unfair Dismissal and Financial Difficulties

Department for Business and Trade · published 13 Oct 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.

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Contracts Finder release ID5646d6d1-e8df-425b-848d-5bcb97645f14-867959
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-01b76098-bef6-49fa-af45-357b2ece3318
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-307868
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£147,000
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Tender value
£147,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
Category
services
CPV
73200000
Research and development consultancy services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Research to inform reforms on unfair dismissal and 'fire and rehire' practices. The project involves two separate research arms: one focusing on unfair dismissal, requiring 50 interviews with businesses with employees, and another on financial difficulties, requiring 50 interviews with businesses that have faced or are facing financial difficulties in the last five years.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release13 Oct 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published29 Aug 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published7 Oct 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published27 Mar 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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IPSOS (Market Research) LTD

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SOURCE

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Published 13 Oct 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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