# Business and Finance News Service

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [H M Revenue & Customs](/buyers/h-m-revenue-customs/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD](/contract-winners/financial-times/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £560,354
- Tender value: £560,354
- Award date: 30 April 2022
- Published: 31 May 2022
- Contract start: 1 May 2022
- Contract end: 30 April 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: ebaf18e5-46f9-439a-bab7-035bc1b55a40-543222
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-2124fddc-11f7-48d7-90b7-99de8700cb8c

## Description

he FT provides HMRC colleagues with business, economic, markets, analysis, policy and risking news, with both a national and international focus; it is used across over 30 HMRC Business Areas for a variety of purposes, including but not limited to: • Risk profiling of individual companies • Business sector analysis \(intervention\) • Market trend analysis • Potential tax gap analysis • Help informing the production of budget papers for central Government • Identifying potential wealth/ownership of properties etc\. • Case Working • Informing Policy Changes • Keeping up to date on Brexit news • Assessing risks • Tax and business policy analysis, • background on corporate and public policy making, • OECD or EU guidelines and policy changes • helping analysts interpret trends - eg emergence of new sectors, useful feedback from business leaders themselves • keeping people aware of issues to ensure they can react quickly to briefing requests from Ministers and take mitigating action, • provide insight into avoidance schemes, • plus their research has been useful reference for our analysts and they provide useful comment on HMRC\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ebaf18e5-46f9-439a-bab7-035bc1b55a40-543222)