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OPSS- Cost of Business Compliance Study

Buyer: Department for Business and Trade →

BuyerDepartment for Business and Trade
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published7 Feb 2025

What is being bought

The aim of the proposed research project is to address the gaps in OPSS’s evidence base on the costs of Business Compliance with the regulations that OPSS holds policy responsibility for. ‘Cost of Business Compliance’ refers to the specific activities that businesses must undertake to bring a product to the market.

Delivery location

UK

Categories

Research and development services and related consultancy services 73000000

Lot details

Lot 1

The project will be divided into 2 Phases, the Supplier shall conduct initial research and set out a proposed survey methodology design to be used in Phase 2. Phase 2, the Supplier shall conduct a survey of a sample of 10,000 UK manufacturers in scope of OPSS regulation.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 80
Price — 20
price — 100

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 73. The category anchor is Research and development services and related consultancy services (73000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 733,0453 median · 26.7 average (1,086 of 3,045 with a bid count)2.5 average (1,227 of 3,045 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK1,3172 median · 45.4 average (457 of 1,317 with a bid count)3 average (527 of 1,317 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

004154-2025-CR_4811-1

Statusactive
Value£164,923

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02cca3
Latest release ID004154-2025
Latest release timestampFri Feb 07 2025 12:15:51 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
7 Feb 2025award, contract004154-2025
26 Jan 2022award, contract002305-2022
26 Jul 2021tenderUpdate017724-2021
26 Jul 2021tender017717-2021

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (4 releases)
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26 Jul 2021 · 017724-2021 · tenderUpdate
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26 Jul 2021 · 017717-2021 · tender
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