Published date: 9 December 2025
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£599,757
Procurement reference
tender_501013/1538113
Published date
9 December 2025
Closing date
8 October 2025
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
24 November 2025
Contract end date
24 November 2032
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established dynamic purchasing system.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is commissioning an
independent evaluation of the construction of a new net-zero headquarters for the
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) at the University of
Reading's Whiteknights Campus. The maximum budget for the evaluation is £630,000
including VAT. We are seeking to commission an experienced external supplier with
relevant expertise.
We are establishing a contract for a single supplier, although a supplier may choose to
subcontract parts of its delivery. If you choose to bid with subcontractors to deliver the
requirement, you must be clear in your bid about who they are and to what extent they
will provide the service (see section 6 for more information on subcontractors).
This specification proposes a high-level approach to delivering this evaluation, but we
encourage bidders to suggest adaptations if they feel they would better deliver the
requirements. These should be fully explained and justified.
We anticipate that the contract will cover a period from December 2025 until the end of
2032 and will be structured into three main phases:
- Baseline phase
- Interim phase
- Full evaluation phase
The contract is being offered under the Crown Commercial Services Research & Insights
Dynamic Purchasing System (RM6126) and the terms associated with that DPS will apply.
On 11July 2025 the Department applied a filter of categories on the Research & Insights
Dynamic Purchasing System's marketplace was undertaken.
The categories selected were economics (appraisal and behavioural economics), higher
education, workplace training/skills development, employment, decarbonisation,
emissions and net zero, financial analysis (incl. cost-benefit analysis, return on
investment analysis), impact assessment, impact evaluation, theory-based impact
evaluation (incl. theories of change (ToC) and logic modelling), value-for-money
evaluation, and stakeholder research.
More information
Award information
Awarded date
27 October 2025
Contract start date
24 November 2025
Contract end date
24 November 2032
Total value of contract
£599,757
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
SQW Limited
Address
Oxford Centre for Innovation, Blue Boar Court, 9 Alfred Street, Oxford, OX1 4EH
Reference
No reference - other
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
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