Official UK procurement notice
Report on quantifying the technical debt in the UK higher education sector: Developing the financial evidence for collaborative efficiencies
Authority: Jisc (Public body)
Sectors: Education & Training (80) Delivery: South West (UKK)
Awarded value£156,425published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 8 Apr 2025no call for competition
Awarded to TPXimpact Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionJisc has appointed a consultancy to carry out the following:
- Develop an approach to costing the technical debt of the current digital, data and technology infrastructure across teaching and learning, research and innovation and corporate management systems
- Work closely and confidentially with a small group of representative higher education institutions to establish and test the approach (though Jisc isn’t opposed to working with a larger group if it is feasible within the time and cost constraints of the project).
- Participation and engagement will be supported by the UUK transformation and efficiency programme and Jisc’s membership
- Derive evidence to be able to identify the costs of maintaining the status quo, both capital and recurrent and
- Develop a model for costing technical debt to enable institutions to derive pragmatic and credible evidence for investment in new and significant collaborative efficiencies across the HEI landscape.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - without competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 15 Apr 2025, 15:03 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Apr 2025, 15:03 BST
- Authority reference
Proc2803b- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-015292- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050357Find a Tender
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Contract details notice published15 Apr 2025, 15:03 BSTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastAwards 1
Awarded value £156,4251 contract exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 8 Apr 2025
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPXimpact Limited | £156,425 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Proc2803b report on quantifying the technical debt in the UK higher education sector: Developing the financial evidence for collaborative efficiencies · TPXimpact Limited
- Signed
- 8 Apr 2025
- Value
- £156,425
- Period
- 9 Apr 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- TPXimpact LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender