Find a TenderAwardedContract details notice
Published 11 Jun 2025, 16:40 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Impact Report 2025 · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Big Lottery Fund, operating as The National Lottery Community Fund

ServicesBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Research & Development (R&D) (73) Delivery: UK
Published estimate£140,000≈ £140k / year · £168,000 inc. VAT1.4% below published estimate
Submissions closed 30 Jun 2025awarded 11 Aug 2025
Awarded to GC Insight Ltd
Contract term 1 yrends 21 Jul 2026 · up to 21 Jun 2027 with extensions · starts 21 Jul 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The National Lottery Community Fund have a range of products offering funding from £300 - £5million across the UK. More detail about the funding programmes available can be found here: www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes ↗ In Summer 2023 the Fund launched our new strategy, 'It starts with community'. Through it we committed to spend £4 billion by 2030, supporting activities that create resilient communities, strengthen society, and improve lives across the UK. As part of our strategy, we've introduced four community-led funding missions:

  • Support communities to come together
  • Support communities to help children and young people thrive
  • Support communities to enable people to live healthier lives
  • Support communities to be environmentally sustainable Following the launch of the strategy, the Fund's Strategic Analysis team are developing a new piece of research to measure the reach and impact of our funding. The research will follow on from the 2021 'Putting Communities First: Our Impact' report to create an updated 'Impact Report 2025'. The research has three main objectives: 1) To collect representative data about the typical annual reach and impact of The National Lottery Community Fund's funding. 2) To improve understanding of the difference The National Lottery Community Fund's funding makes to grant holders, beneficiaries, and the wider community to enable The Fund to communicate more clearly about the impact of our funding. 3) To capture specific impact evidence related to National Lottery 'Awards for All' grants (which are available across the UK), following the increase in funding threshold from £10,000 to £20,000 as of November 2023. The contract duration is for an initial term of 12 months with an option to extend for a further 12 months (1+1). The maximum value for the initial term is £100,000 GBP ex VAT and the maximum value of the extension period is £40,000 GBP ex VAT

CPV: Research and development services and related consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1AwardedRenewal 1 yrSMEVCSEPublished value£140,000
Contract period: 21 Jul 2025 – 21 Jul 2026 (1 yr) · up to 21 Jun 2027 with extensionsValue: £140,000 exc. VAT · £168,000 inc. VAT
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: 12 months extension
Pre-qualification & selection criteria (PQQ)1
  • Condition of participation

    See Tender Pack

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored

Lot awarding rule: 85% Quality/Technical 15% Price/Cost

Conditions of participation1
  • Condition of participation

    See Tender Pack

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
11 Jun 2025, 16:40 BST
Last source update
18 Aug 2025, 16:06 BST
Authority reference
C0102
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-031662
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Classification (CPV)
Research and development services and related consultancy services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054705 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: EU-Supply (CTM) · Who buys & how to bid on EU-Supply
Public notice page · account needed to bidElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Free · 5–10 minutes
Submission deadline
30 Jun 2025, 17:00 BST
Clarification deadline
23 Jun 2025, 13:00 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

11 Jun 2025 → 18 Aug 2025 · 5 dates
  1. Tender notice published
    11 Jun 2025, 16:40 BST
  2. Clarification questions by
    23 Jun 2025, 13:00 BST
  3. Submission deadline
    30 Jun 2025, 17:00 BST
  4. Contract starts
    21 Jul 2025
  5. Latest notice published
    18 Aug 2025, 16:06 BST

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Jun 2025
  1. Tender notice published
    11 Jun 2025, 16:40 BST
    UK4
  2. Contract details notice published
    18 Aug 2025, 16:06 BST
    UK7
  3. Status changed to complete
    18 Aug 2025, 16:06 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £137,9871 contract exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 11 Aug 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
GC Insight LtdSME£137,987 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • Contract 1 · GC Insight LtdSME

    Signed
    11 Aug 2025
    Value
    £137,987
    Period
    11 Aug 2025 – 10 Aug 2026 · up to 10 Aug 2027 with extensions
    Status
    active
    Extensions
    The maximum value of the extension is £40,000 GBP Ex VAT. The extension will be implemented at the discretion of the Fund should addtional in scope services be required.

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

The National Lottery Community Fund

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PNLV-9975-CQQW Apex House, 3 Embassy Drive, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 1TRContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • GC INSIGHT LIMITEDAwarded supplierGB-COH: 03162288GB-PPON: PDHQ-2726-MPXT Lee House, Manchester, North West, M1 5JWContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender
  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender