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.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Dsit
- Supplier
- The Neurodegeneration Initiative Limited SME
- Value
- £2,750,000
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award
- Sector
- Research & development · Design and execution of research and development (CPV 73300000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2026
- Published22 Apr 2026Published 21 days after the contract date
Description
The Dementia Goals programme (DGP), part of the Healthcare Goals programme (based in the Office for Life Sciences within DSIT). The Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals programme, aims to speed up the development of new treatments for dementia by accelerating innovations in biomarkers, clinical trials and implementation. This project is to undertake a Proof of Concept (PoC) study to test the feasibility of BARBARA - a Brain Ageing Registry for Biomarkers, Access to trials, Research, and Adoption. Additional information: n/a
About the supplier
The Neurodegeneration Initiative Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 16213027).