# Qualitative Research to Monitor the Impact of UK Services Sanctions on Businesses and the Russian Economy

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department for Business and Trade](/buyers/department-for-business-and-trade/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Themis International Services Limited
- Award value: £85,000
- Tender value: £85,000
- Award date: 2 January 2025
- Published: 31 January 2025
- Contract start: 3 January 2025
- Contract end: 31 March 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 80f56368-f0fd-4457-ade3-f80275368b50-822074
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-3eff4cbf-e0be-4d29-8bfe-c0e204a6d654

## Description

To explore and identify the impacts of UK professional and businesses services \(PBS\) sanctions against Russia on UK businesses and the Russian economy\. In this second phase of a two-year project, this research will look at understanding continued business activity via a commercial presence in Russia, or in countries with no or limited sanctions regimes where circumvention to Russia may be occuring, and the ways in which businesses balance sanctions compliance with commercial interests, including by diverting trade abroad and circumventing UK measures\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/80f56368-f0fd-4457-ade3-f80275368b50-822074)