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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 18 hours ago Contract notice

Technology Fund Horizon Scanning

Open United Kingdom Research & development

Buyer FAIR4ALL FINANCE LIMITED

26 days left

Key facts

Closes
14:00 (UTC)
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 27 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

27 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, below the EU threshold) give a median of 26 days, half of them between 19 and 31 days, based on 2,182 notices of the last two years.

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Summary

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Fair4All Finance is procuring external support to inform the design and prioritisation of a new multi-year Technology Fund of around 5 million pounds, expected to launch in early 2027. The Fund will accelerate the development and adoption of technology enabled solutions that could transform outcomes for financially underserved and excluded consumers, in line with the UK Government's 2025 Financial Inclusion Strategy commitments. The contract covers evidence-based analysis of relevant technology trends, market gaps and priority themes to help shape the Fund. The buyer, Fair4All Finance, is the organisation developing the Fund.

Description

The Government’s 2025 Financial Inclusion Strategy explicitly commits Fair4All Finance to testing innovative approaches to support financial inclusion in the UK. Aligned to these commitments, Fair4All Finance is developing a new, multi-year c£5 million Technology Fund (“the Fund”), expected to launch in early 2027. The Fund is designed to accelerate the development and adoption of innovative technology enabled solutions that have the potential to transform outcomes for financially underserved and excluded consumers. Fair4All Finance is seeking external support to help inform the design and prioritisation of the Technology Fund launching in 2027. We are looking for evidence-based analysis of relevant technology trends, market gaps, and priority themes.

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Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Research & development.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    26 days left, 18 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €55,383 and €305,134.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 7 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

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Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 18 hours ago

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 234 awards for Research & development in United Kingdom.

Median award
€116,642
Middle half of past awards
€55,383 to €305,134

Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) publishes no value for this notice, so it has no mark on the scale. The official documents may state one.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

FAIR4ALL FINANCE LIMITED

United Kingdom

notices in the register
7
awards
4

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Research & development - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD 12 €30.8M Sep 2026
AtkinsRéalis Jacobs Joint Venture 8 €1.8M Oct 2026
Ove Arup 7 €1.9M Oct 2026
WSP UK LIMITED 6 €5.9M Sep 2026
Verian Group UK Limited 6 €5.0M Sep 2026

Based on 285 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

Market context

Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) publishes no value for this notice, so it cannot be placed among the open notices of its sector. The official documents may state one.

open now in Research & development
658
median open notice
€294,151

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Research & development

different companies won awards here
199
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
10%
buyers awarded contracts here
100

Based on 282 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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