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Published 18 Sept 2025, 09:06 BST

Official UK procurement notice

5000000 · DESNZ & DSIT Group Commercial (Sept 2025)

Official notice

Authority: DESNZ & DSIT Group Commercial

Framework agreementServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competitionSME suitable
Sectors: Research & Development (R&D) (73) Delivery: UK
Framework ceiling (notional)Value not publishedframework ceiling, not attributable revenue
Awarded 21 Aug 2025no call for competition

What is being bought

Published requirement description

AISI requires a Supplier to provide study participants and platform access for ~20 human uplift studies and 20-40 human impacts studies. The Supplier should provide recruitment and payment of study participants and a platform to enable communication with them where necessary. For each human uplift study we anticipate an average of 200 participants. Each study should last for ~4 hours. Most human impacts studies will be ~1000 participants, but could range between 400 and 25,000, and tasks range from 10 minutes to 90 minutes

CPV: Research services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Bids received
2 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1To provide research servicesAwarded
Delivery: UK

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
18 Sept 2025, 09:06 BST
Last source update
18 Sept 2025, 09:06 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-057555
Classification (CPV)
Research services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059cc1 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification

The contract was procured under CCS framework RM6200 Artificial Intelligence

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Suppliers appointed 1admitted to the panel · see the list ↓
Bids received 21 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 21 Aug 2025

1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.

Contracts

  • AI Security Institute: Human Participant Recruitment and Platform Support

    Signed
    21 Aug 2025
    Value
    £5,000,000
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
2bids · 2 electronic · 2 from abroad1——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

DESNZ & DSIT Group Commercial

Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawGeneral public services SW1A 2BQ, London, LondonContact email

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyReview body London

Framework contractors & participating bidders

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.