PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Research and Insights DPS

Crown Commercial Service · published 4 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 ID76c6a1ab-5fd1-4dff-bbb7-1214f2752a32-864170
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-4cbd003c-39e5-4695-a5d7-8f9454a74b38
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/6sQD8uds
Release typetenderAmendment
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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

Award value
Not disclosed
award field
Tender value
£1,300,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Restricted procedure (above threshold)
Category
services
CPV
22200000
Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as the authority intends to put in place a DPS Agreement for the provision of Research and Insights services to be utilised by Central Government Departments and all other UK Public Sector Bodies, including local authorities, health, police, fire and rescue, education and devolved administrations and charities. It is intended that this DPS agreement will be the recommended vehicle for all research and behavioural insights services required by UK Central Government Departments. Additional information: Please note the Closing Date, Contract Start Date and Contract End Date have been manipulated to support compatibility system issues. Please refer to the contract notice for the correct dates, timelines etc. The duration of this DPS was 48 months with the option to extend for a further 2 periods of 12 months. This is to advise that the optional extension has been utilised and the end date is now 23/02/2029 and the threshold value has been increased to £1.3b

Tender statusactive
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release4 Nov 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published23 Feb 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

No supplier is named in this projection. That does not prove the notice had no supplier in every source version.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 4 Nov 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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