# AWARDED CONTRACT: TRAS3084: Analytical system design for a Freight Analysis and Modelling Environment \(FAME\)

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [DfTc - Department for Transport](/buyers/dftc-department-for-transport/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: MDS Transmodal Ltd
- Award value: £43,100
- Tender value: £43,100
- Award date: 25 July 2023
- Published: 4 August 2023
- Contract start: 7 August 2023
- Contract end: 8 December 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 1d2c1686-b035-49ea-a79e-fdf807958830-669110
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-4cd39c68-63e0-4515-b723-c8cb30945d31

## Description

The Department for Transport \('DfT'\) wishes to set up a contract to seek a feasible and detailed analytical system design for Freight Analysis and Modelling Environment \(FAME\), a new cross-modal freight analysis environment, in order to enhance the Department's analytical capability to support investment decisions, policy development, emergency responses and strategic directions\. This study \(Stage 1 of the FAME\) should deliver the following three key deliverables: a\. a literature review and a systematic understanding of freight and logistics; b\. a feasible framework for the FAME with suitable analytical levers for scenario-based analysis; and, c\. a detailed and feasible technical blueprint of viable analytical solutions supporting the DfT's freight analyses, such as those on end-to-end freight journeys and multimodal forecasting, including the methodologies for a national freight transport model and non-modelling tools, and data requirements\. Following an open tender competition, announced by a previous Contracts Finder notice, the Department for Transport has awarded a contract for the stage 1 study to MDS Transmodal\. The total value of the contract is £43,100\.00, excl\. VAT\. The contract shall commence on 07/08/2023 and terminate on 08/12/2023, with the option to extend this period for a further two months with less than 10 working days notice\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1d2c1686-b035-49ea-a79e-fdf807958830-669110)