Contract award · 20 Dec 2024

Contract for the provision of productivity research services

Ofcom awarded “Contract for the provision of productivity research services” to FTI Consulting LLP for £80,000. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionBusiness servicesLondon

BuyerOfcom
Value £80,000

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.

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Key facts

Buyer
Ofcom · Body governed by public law
Value
£80,000
Procedure
Single tender action (below threshold)
Sector
Business services · Economic research services (CPV 79311400)
Region
London
Timeline
  1. Contract date20 Dec 2024
  2. Published3 Jan 2025Published 14 days after the contract date

Description

We are commissioning a review of the economic literature into productivity, its determinants and its evolution over time, with particular focus on recent years and its slowdown in the UK; productivity in the sectors that Ofcom regulates; and the impact of the sectors we regulate on productivity in the wider economy as well as any impact of our regulation (or regulation more broadly) to the extent possible.

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