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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department for Business and Trade

Project_4973 - Digital Adoption Trial 2

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£317k
Awarded24 Sept 2025
Published6 Jan 2026
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£317ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) are keen to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) become more productive by increasing their levels of digital adoption.

DBT want to undertake a second recruitment trial and advice trial project, to assess the effectiveness of different advisory approaches and recruitment strategies.

DBT will run a recruitment trial and an advice trial.

Trials will test solutions to key motivational and capability barriers (e.g. lack of urgency, risk aversion, lack of awareness and knowledge).

Taking lessons from previous programmes, we are keen to deliver these trials regionally, recognising local networks, trusted intermediaries and a better understanding of local issues facing SMEs.

These regions will likely be at the Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) level.

DBT has selected a delivery partner for this project. 'Delivery partner' refers to the local authority that will deliver the advice as part of the advice trial and the recruitment methods, as part of the recruitment trial.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Taking lessons from previous programmes, we are

Taking lessons from previous programmes, we are keen to deliver these trials regionally, recognising local networks, trusted intermediaries and a better understanding of local issues facing SMEs.

02

DBT has selected a delivery partner

DBT has selected a delivery partner for this project. 'Delivery partner' refers to the local authority that will deliver the advice as part of the advice trial and the recruitment methods, as part of the recruitment trial.

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