Contract award · 1 Apr 2026

Transport Evaluation Support for Trials (TEST)

DfTc - Department for Transport awarded “Transport Evaluation Support for Trials (TEST)” to PA Consulting Services Ltd for £3.5m on 1 Apr 2026.

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Key facts

Value
£3,500,000
Procedure
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
Sector
Research & development · Research services (CPV 73110000)
Region
London
Timeline
  1. Contract date1 Apr 2026
  2. Published20 Apr 2026Published 19 days after the contract date

Description

The Authority wishes to appoint a Supplier to manage and deliver the TEST programme, under the direction of the Authority's officials. There are five components to this requirement: programme management, the idea process, the proposal process, the trial process and the Dissemination process. The primary purpose of the programme is to collect robust evidence about the impact of transport innovations to guide future decisions. Consequently, ideas and proposals will only be supported so long as such robust evidence is achievable. We recognise that robust evidence may become unfeasible for a variety of reasons, some of which will be outside the control of the supported organisations and the TEST Supplier. However, where this happens, support should be discontinued. Accordingly, our plans for the programme assume that a proportion of ideas will not, ultimately, be supportable and that a proportion of proposals will not proceed to a trial. The Contract is being offered under Crown Commercia…

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