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

Contract summary

Industry

• IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

SN2 1FL

Value of contract

£7,640,599.43

Procurement reference

UKRI-4825

Published date

6 November 2025

Closing date

4 June 2025

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

2 August 2025

Contract end date

1 October 2026

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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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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Award information

Awarded date

24 June 2025

Contract start date

2 August 2025

Contract end date

1 October 2026

Total value of contract

£7,640,599.43

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Kerv Digital Limited

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About the buyer

Contact name

Laura Lewis

Address

Polaris House
SWINDON
SN2 1FL
England

Telephone

01235446553

Email

laura.lewis@ukri.org

Website

www.ukri.org