Official UK procurement notice
Replacement of components of NTEM (the National Trip End Model)
Authority: Department for Transport (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe National Trip End Model is a trip generation model of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). The currently published NTEM version 8 results cover the period 2021 to 2061. These forecasts inform most of the Department for Transport’s investment decisions.
The NTEM Synthetic Population project aims to replace Scenario Generator and NATCOP (including the licence cohort model) with a Synthetic Population Forecasting Model.
We wish to replace the components ‘Scenario Generator’, ‘NATCOP’ and ‘Licence Cohort Model’ with new forecasting software that generates a ‘synthetic population’ that can be published as well as continuing to provide the inputs to the existing CTripEnd modelling software.
This contract has been awarded to Ove Arup & Partners Ltd pursuant to a mini-competition held on the CCS Research & Insights dynamic purchasing agreement (RM6126). The contract has a maximum value of £200,000 excluding VAT, and a duration of 2 years, from 29th April 2024 to 24th April 2026.
CPV: Research and development services and related consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Apr 2024, 12:47 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Apr 2024, 12:47 BST
- Authority reference
TANL3026- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-013883- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-045610Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This contract is awarded after a mini competition held on an existing dynamic purchasing agreement (the CCS' Research & Insights marketplace). When a contract is intended to be awarded to suppliers from an existing framework or dynamic purchasing agreement, there is no legal obligation to publish a prior call for competition in the OJEU.
This publication of the fact of contract award ensures transparency about the award of government contracts.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITED | £200,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 013883-2024-1 · OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITED
- Signed
- 29 Apr 2024
- Value
- £200,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Ove Arup & Partners LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.