# Contract for Research into Strength Profiling - The STRONG Study

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [MINISTRY OF DEFENCE](/buyers/ministry-of-defence/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [University of Salford](/contract-winners/university-of-salford/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £187,572
- Tender value: £187,572
- Award date: 16 April 2025
- Published: 2 June 2025
- Contract start: 1 October 2025
- Contract end: 31 March 2029
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 8ba8779c-08fc-4d4d-b6db-a3963cd6c5a7-847783
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-769edeca-0fca-44e5-bfb2-8e3f5666e92e

## Description

There is currently a research programme, the 'STRONG-Army' Study, which aims to determine how strong, British Army personnel are based on age, sex and job role\. The Army HQ, RAPTC and Defence Rehabilitation strongly support this research programme as it may help improve fitness, prevent injuries, and guide rehabilitation in the future\. Currently, this data is only being collected in Army personnel\. The Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air would like to collaborate on a similar programme, to allow personnel to benefit from the same information collected from the Army\. This is the basis of the STRONG-Navy/RM' study and STRONG-RAF' programmes\.

## Related contract awards

- [715899475 - Provision of Secure Air-Gapped Computing Capability for SECRET Information Processing for the Military Court Service](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-14c8c75f-8030-4fe0-8476-d2e28fa901aa): Ministry of Defence
- [715765462 - RM1557\.14 - Lot 2 - G-Cloud 14 - Project SafeSight - CAN](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-18f1cfb6-298f-40fc-8c87-8c83dc7a37b6): Ministry of Defence
- [Contract Award Notice - Construction Works for Petroleum Storage Depot - RAF Akrotiri](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bef0d42b-568f-415a-a1c1-49dc06f9309f): Ministry of Defence
- [Contract Award Threshold of acceptability for speech quality in the Emergency Services Network](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-61fb5252-0e6f-4710-8b0b-073e1337e46c): Home Office
- [Review of Email Records](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5d378be7-f415-48f5-aaac-5fd37e56a779): Cabinet Office
- [Population Health Fellowship Accreditation for Qualification and Delivery - NHSE](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9a0de2f7-91c3-44f2-b456-7b2b38cd6325): NHS England

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/8ba8779c-08fc-4d4d-b6db-a3963cd6c5a7-847783)