Awarded contract

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Details

Buyer: Department for Science Innovation and Technology, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Supplier(s): Prolific Research USA Inc
Value: £5,000,000
Topic: Research services
Published: 18 September 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

AISI requires a Supplier to provide study participants and platform access for ~20 human uplift studies and 20-40 human impacts studies. The Supplier should provide recruitment and payment of study participants and a platform to enable communication with them where necessary. For each human uplift study we anticipate an average of 200 participants. Each study should last for ~4 hours. Most human impacts studies will be ~1000 participants, but could range between 400 and 25,000, and tasks range from 10 minutes to 90 minutes Lot 1: To provide research services

Timeline

Completed: Award date21 August 2025
Completed: Award published18 September 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

The Department for Science Innovation and Technology is a central government department, and a dedicated commercial directorate leads on its procurement work alongside project and delivery teams. Common goods and services are bought through Crown Commercial Service frameworks. UK Shared Business Services, a shared-services provider, manages many of the department's lower-value procurements on its behalf. Low-value orders require multiple supplier quotes to ensure value for money.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Department for Science Innovation and Technology's contract awards have been in IT services, research and development and software and information systems.

Decision makers

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