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
- Transport for London · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Ipsos Mori UK Limited
- Value
- £1,194,110
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Research services (CPV 73110000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 104098-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Oct 2026
- Published3 Nov 2026Published 27 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of market research services to deliver TfL's Customer Pulse and Advertising & Marketing Evaluation programmes, including online survey fieldwork, data analysis, reporting and insight to measure customer perceptions, behaviours and the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. This was a mini competition via the GCA Research and Insights Framework DPS (RM6126)
About the supplier
Ipsos Mori UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01640855).