Who Won It

Contract award · 14 Aug 2025

Provision of Evaluation Research Support

Department for Transport awarded “Provision of Evaluation Research Support” to Frontier Economic Limited for £625k. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionResearch & developmentLondon

BuyerDepartment for Transport
Value £625k
WinnerFrontier Economic Limited

Awarded without open competition

Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.

What “without competition” means

Buyer
Department for Transport · Body governed by public law
Supplier
Frontier Economic Limited
Value
£625,000
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Research & development · Research and development services and related consultancy services (CPV 73000000)
Region
London
Official notice
052701-2025 on Find a Tender
Timeline
  1. Contract date14 Aug 2025
  2. Published1 Sep 2025Published 18 days after the contract date

Description

Evaluation Research Support

About the supplier

Other awards in the same procurement

Call-offs and awards published under the same process (for example a framework or dynamic purchasing system).

Date Contract Supplier Value
19 Jun 2023
www.dft.gov.uk No competition
 Frontier Economics Limited SME £500k

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