Contract award · 28 Nov 2025

NBC Cost Management and Assurance Services

Defra awarded “NBC Cost Management and Assurance Services” to Turner & Townsend Project Management Limited for £5.34m on 28 Nov 2025.

Architecture & engineeringLondon

BuyerDefra
Value £5.34m

Competition with a shortlist

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

Key facts

Buyer
Defra · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
Value
£5,339,400
Procedure
Call-off from a framework agreement
Sector
Architecture & engineering · Calculation of costs, monitoring of costs (CPV 71244000)
Region
London
Timeline
  1. Contract date28 Nov 2025
  2. Published2 Dec 2025Published 4 days after the contract date

Description

The NBC Programme requires a Cost Manager and Cost Assurance Partner to provide services to the Programme, to control cost on key projects, such as PR29 (Animal Lab) and PR30 (Science Hub), as well as provide Cost Assurance and advice at a programme level, that assures overall programme costs and supports programme business case and spending reviews. There is an option to extend the services to cover outstanding activity until 31st December 2027

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