# Department For Transport MEPLAN Wider License Agreement

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [THE DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT](/buyers/department-for-transport/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [WSP UK Ltd](/contract-winners/wsp-uk/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £76,500
- Tender value: £76,500
- Award date: 17 March 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 17 March 2016
- Contract end: 16 April 2016
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 89f62239-67b1-490d-9bea-868c22755a24-91324
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-759eb9d9-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

The Department’s National Transport Model \(NTM\) provides national-level traffic forecasts and evidence underpinning critical decisions at DfT, and as such its results are subject to increasing interest and scrutiny by external stakeholders including academics and lobby groups\. This purchase of the Wider Intellectual Property Rights \(IPR\) License for the MEPLAN software package, is part of a larger research programme to improve the NTM to meet current needs, including greater geographic detail for Roads analysis and a higher standard of quality control as part of the NTM Next Generation programme\. This purchase will enable us to read and update the software code used in NTM and remove the main commercial barrier for sharing NTM by giving us the rights to sub-licence MEPLAN software to external organisations\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/89f62239-67b1-490d-9bea-868c22755a24-91324)