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Office for Students: Provision of Support Services for TRAC
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Tenderline Synopsis: Office for Students: "Office for Students: Provision of Support Services for TRAC". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
| Contracting Authority | Office for Students | Scope & Categories | Not published | Submission Window | complete No deadline published |
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| Submission Gateway | Direct notice route | Legal Basis & Regime | Standard procurement | Estimated Value (exc. VAT) | Not published |
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Contracting AuthorityOffice for Students | Procedure methodNot published | Procurement categoryNot published |
Statuscomplete | Framework / DPSNot published | CompetitionNot published |
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Clarification deadlineNot published | Electronic submissionNot published | Submission languagesNot published |
Published3 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMT | Last source update3 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMT | Recurring procurementNot published |
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OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0567ad | ||
What is being bought
Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) is an activity-based costing system developed for the UK higher education sector and implemented in UK publicly funded higher education institutions. This contract is for the Provision of TRAC technical helpdesk support to UK HE institutions required to submit TRAC returns.
Maintaining and updating the TRAC guidance and reporting requirements, including taking account of changes to financial accounting standards and meeting stakeholder needs.
Carrying out reviews of the TRAC methodology to improve data quality and utility and meet multiple stakeholder requirements.
Supporting the TRAC Development Group in its oversight of the TRAC system.
Supporting the UK Regulators and Funders, including the use of the TRAC system to inform funding policy for teaching and research, and for informing pricing of research grants and contracts.
To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=991633956
What changed
From the official release history
- Official notice release published
3 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMT - Official notice release published
15 Aug 2025, 16:05 BST - Status changed to complete
29 Jul 2025, 10:05 BST - Official notice release published
29 Jul 2025, 10:05 BST - Buyer information updated
29 Jul 2025, 10:05 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
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- Lot 1 · #1Individual lot title not publishedcompletePublished valueNot publishedThe source published no individual title or description for this lot.Contract periodNot publishedEligibilityNot publishedOptions / renewalNot published
Timeline
- Procedure published
3 Nov 2025, 16:05 GMT - Award active
Not published · Not published - Contract active
Signed 12 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST · £530,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards KPMG LLP Not published · Not published · active |
Contracts Contract £530,000 · signed 12 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST · active Contract period: 15 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST — 14 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST |
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published |
Buyer and organisations in this procedure
Office for Students
Contracting authority GB-PPON-PYZM-6681-RPZPDocuments (1)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published |
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Procedure rationaleThe TRAC support service is a specialist contract requiring expertise in the TRAC system, understanding of methodology, and capacity to provide support across the UK HE sector, to OfS, SFC, Medr, DFE(NI) and UKRI to support use of TRAC data for informing funding policy, for use by UKRI for funding research grants and contracts, and to inform government policy for DfE and the devolved administrations.
The OfS is currently implementing changes to its data platform and arrangements for collecting data from institutions (including change to the TRAC return template). Therefore, continuity of helpdesk support to the sector during the next TRAC return will be essential to avoid disproportionate burden for HE institutions during this transition period.
Additionally, continuity is required in order that important developments in the TRAC system which involve implementation of complex technical changes to the TRAC requirements that have been developed and recently piloted under the current service contract can be implemented successfully and without disruption in the helpdesk support. |