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Research and Insights DPS

Issued by Crown Commercial Service · via UK Contracts Finder

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Published
4 Nov 2025
Closes
23 Feb 2029, 23:59 UTC
Value
GBP 1,30,00,00,000
Reference
RM6126
Location
United Kingdom
Sector
Manufacturing & Supply
Type
services

Details

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

Context for bidders

Crown Commercial Service has 15 open notices on FreeTender. There are 61 open Manufacturing & Supply tenders in United Kingdom. This one closes in 909 days.

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