Research & Insights DPS
The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
- Estimated value
- £1,300,000,000
- Excluding VAT
- Where
- UK-wide
- Buyer in North West England
- Trade
- Business, admin and consultancy
- Market and economic research; polling and statistics
- Documents
- Not stated
- See the official notice
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Worked out by Evendraft from the notice’s own data, on 25 Oct 2026. The official notice is the one to rely on.
- Time to bid
- 591 full UK working days before the closing day, Fri 23 Feb 2029 (England and Wales bank holidays left out).
- Value
- £1.3bn is among the largest tenth of the 268 open consultancy and business services tenders that state a value (median £433,750).
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Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as the authority intends to put in place a DPS Agreement for the provision of Research and Insights services to be utilised by Central Government Departments and all other UK Public Sector Bodies, including local authorities, health, police, fire and rescue…
- Official notice
- Find a Tender, notice 070846-2025
- Buyer
- The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
- Buyer’s region
- North West England
- Where the work is
- UK-wide
- Listed on Evendraft under
- UK-wide tenders (a national buyer)
- Published
- 4 Nov 2025
- Tender deadline
- 23 Feb 2029, 23:59 UK time
- Estimated value
- £1,300,000,000 (excluding VAT)
- Trade
- Business, admin and consultancy
- CPV codes
- 79300000 Market and economic research; polling and statistics
- 73000000 Research and development services and related consultancy services
- 73100000 Research and experimental development services
- 73110000 Research services
- 73111000 Research laboratory services
- 73112000 Marine research services
Show all 34 codes
- 73200000 Research and development consultancy services
- 73210000 Research consultancy services
- 73300000 Design and execution of research and development
- 73400000 Research and Development services on security and defence materials
- 73430000 Test and evaluation
- 79000000 Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
- 79310000 Market research services
- 79311000 Survey services
- 79311100 Survey design services
- 79311200 Survey conduction services
- 79311210 Telephone survey services
- 79311300 Survey analysis services
- 79311400 Economic research services
- 79311410 Economic impact assessment
- 79312000 Market-testing services
- 79313000 Performance review services
- 79314000 Feasibility study
- 79315000 Social research services
- 79320000 Public-opinion polling services
- 79330000 Statistical services
- 79340000 Advertising and marketing services
- 79342310 Customer survey services
- 79342311 Customer satisfaction survey
- 79400000 Business and management consultancy and related services
- 79410000 Business and management consultancy services
- 79411000 General management consultancy services
- 79411100 Business development consultancy services
- 90711400 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) services other than for construction
- Procedure
- Restricted procedureTwo stages: apply to take part first; shortlisted suppliers are invited to tender.
- Framework
- Not stated on the notice
- Lots
- Not divided into lots
- Suitable for small businesses The buyer’s answer
- Not stated on the notice
- Suitable for charities and social enterprises The buyer’s answer
- Not stated on the notice
- Good for small firms Evendraft’s filter
- No (not marked suitable for small businesses by the buyer; estimated value over £1m)Good for small firms means the buyer marked it suitable for small businesses, the estimated value is £1m or less (or not stated), it is open to new suppliers, and it is not a framework with more than 20 places. Tenders where the buyer didn't say are left out.
- Documents
- Not stated on the notice
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