PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Contracts Award Notice - Quantitative Free Trade Agreement Evaluation

Department for Business and Trade · published 16 Jun 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 IDfbeca727-ec3c-40ac-b99e-09f6dcf95cbc-902296
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-a1db00ab-1c09-43df-81b2-10fc56faafa4
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-310871
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£1,200,000
award field
Tender value
£1,200,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
Category
services
CPV
79311400
Economic research services
Delivery
London, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This contract will allow DBT to commission a range of econometric and quantitative research projects as required over the coming years, supporting the production of interim monitoring outputs and full ex-post evaluation reports using approximately up to five years' worth of ex-post data from each FTA's date of entry into force. To continue delivering on its commitments, DBT requires a Supplier to provide ongoing analytical and evaluation services under a call-off contract. The Supplier will be expected to design and implement robust quantitative analyses, develop detailed evaluation frameworks, and provide technical support to the Authority's internal analysts to ensure that DBT's FTA M&E programme remains comprehensive, methodologically sound, and responsive to evolving policy priorities.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release16 Jun 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published25 Mar 2026
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published4 Jun 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published5 Jun 2030
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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Frontier Economics

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 16 Jun 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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