Contract award · 24 Jun 2025

The Funding Service (TFS) Optimisation & Early Life Support (ELS)

UK Research & Innovation awarded “The Funding Service (TFS) Optimisation & Early Life Support (ELS)” to Kerv Digital Limited for £7.64m on 24 Jun 2025.

IT servicesSouth West

Value £7.64m
WinnerKerv Digital Limited SME

Competition with a shortlist

Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.

Key facts

Buyer
UK Research & Innovation · Body governed by public law
Value
£7,640,599.43
Procedure
Call-off from a framework agreement
Sector
IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date24 Jun 2025
  2. Published6 Nov 2025Published 135 days after the contract date

Description

For this call off under the DOS 6 framework, UKRI was seeking a delivery partner to support the delivery of several functional and non-functional work packages. The objectives are to: - Reduce Manual Processing - Enable Flexibility through Continuous Improvement - Increase Volume Throughput through Efficiency and Standardisation The delivery partner will play a key role in the end to end delivery of each work package, providing for example Development, User Centric Design and Test Assurance resources to support the UKRI delivery team. The delivery partner must: - Adhere to Government Digital Standards (GDS) - Have strong experience in delivering at pace within similar organisations - Be able to demonstrate that you have appropriate controls and mechanisms in place to ensure code quality - Be familiar with working within both Waterfall and Agile Delivery Constructs

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