Official UK procurement notice
UK7 CREST Project for Secondary Schools
Authority: Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (Central government)
Sectors: Education & Training (80) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Awarded value£49,667published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 24 Sept 2026no call for competition
Awarded to British Science Association
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDSIT has identified a programme that meets its objective of engaging young people in engineering biology, a frontier technology. CREST Awards is the British Science Associations’s flagship education programme. Over 50,000 young people achieve CREST Awards each year, of whom 51% are girls. In 2021/22, over 1,100 schools across the UK took part in CREST.
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
- 2 Oct 2026, 16:42 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 16:42 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-093541- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078025Find a Tender
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Contract details notice published2 Oct 2026, 16:42 BSTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastAwards 1
Awarded value £49,6671 contract exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 24 Sept 2026
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Science AssociationVCSE | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · British Science AssociationVCSE
- Signed
- 24 Sept 2026
- Value
- £49,667
- Period
- 24 Sept 2026 – 30 Apr 2027
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- British Association for the Advancement of ScienceAwarded 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