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DSIT & NI Project Barbara PoC

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology · Transparency notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 2 Oct 2026, 18:56.

Opportunity overview

The Dementia Goals programme (DGP), part of the Healthcare Goals programme (based in the Office for Life Sciences within DSIT). The Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals programme, , aims to speed up the development of new treatments for dementia by accelerating innovations in biomarkers, clinical trials and implementation. This project is to undertake a Proof of Concept (PoC) study to test the feasibility of BARBARA - a Brain Ageing Registry for Biomarkers, Access to trials, Research, and Adoption.

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

Neurodegeneration Initiative Ltd

Match pending…
Published award value
£2.8m
Awarded
Not supplied
Award ID
1
Status
pending
Identifier
GB-PPON PTDM-6393-XLQX
Location
Macclesfield, UKD62, SK10 4ZF, United Kingdom

Classification

No classification was supplied.

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
prj_6753
Status
complete
Procurement Method
direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Why this procedure was chosen
DSIT (OLS) proposes awarding a twelve-month research and development contract to the Neurodegeneration Initiative’ (NI) to carry out a proof-of-concept feasibility study which will lead to creation of the Project BARBARA platform, as an exempted contract under Schedule 2, paragraph 22 of the Procurement Act 2023. The R&D services exemption under Schedule 2 paragraph 22 gives contracting authorities the freedom to design R&D programs that could seek to develop products or technology for the benefit of the market as a whole, and for which the authority itself has no requirements. For example, government contracts for research by public research institutions, universities or the private sector. The exemption, at Schedule 2 paragraph 22(1), applies where the services to be procured are intended by the contracting authority to be for a public benefit or result in a public benefit. This is satisfied because the purpose of the contract and services is to create a platform that will benefit the public - solely for the supply of R&D services; this is also satisfied. The services must also consist of one or more of the activities listed in paragraph 22(2) (a)-(d). The most relevant of these is paragraph 22(2)(c): “(c) development which uses existing knowledge to initiate the manufacture of new materials or products, establish new processes, systems or services, or to achieve a substantial improvement in existing materials, products, processes, systems or services"

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
prototypesDevelopment
Entry 2
Id
singleSuppliersTechnicalReasons

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
complete

Suitability

Sme
Yes
Vcse
Yes

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
conflictOfInterest
Document Type
conflictOfInterest
Description
Not published

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Id
GB-PPON-PVWZ-3216-PVQL

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PVWZ-3216-PVQL

Address

Street Address
22 Whitehall
Locality
London
Postal Code
SW1A 2EG
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKI32

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicAuthorityCentralGovernment
Description
Public authority - central government
Organisation 2
Name
Neurodegeneration Initiative Ltd
Id
GB-PPON-PTDM-6393-XLQX

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PTDM-6393-XLQX

Address

Street Address
Block 35g Mereside, Alderley Park, Alderley Edge
Locality
Macclesfield
Postal Code
SK10 4ZF
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKD62

Contact

Roles

supplier

Details

Scale
sme
Vcse
Yes

Award information

Award 1
Id
1
Title
DSIT & NI Project Barbara PoC
Status
pending
Main Procurement Category
services
Above Threshold
Yes

Items

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
73300000
Description
Design and execution of research and development

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UK
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Value

Including VAT
3,300,000
Amount
2,750,000
Currency
GBP

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-PPON-PTDM-6393-XLQX
Name
Neurodegeneration Initiative Ltd

Contract period

Starts
22 Apr 2026, 00:00
Ends
31 Mar 2027, 23:59

Related lots

1

Documents

Entry 1
Id
036392-2026
Document Type
awardNotice
Notice Type
UK5
Description
Transparency notice on Find a Tender
Published
22 Apr 2026, 09:11
Format
text/html

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
1
Type
futureSignatureDate
Due
22 Apr 2026, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · London · UKI32 · SW1A 2EG · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. 036392-2026Transparency notice on Find a Tender ·