# An evaluation of the impact of TechNation programmes

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT
- Contract winner: [Frontier Economics](/contract-winners/frontier-economics/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £74,700
- Tender value: £74,700
- Award date: 6 September 2019
- Published: 27 January 2020
- Contract start: 16 September 2019
- Contract end: 20 January 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 3cf9460b-4213-43c1-b460-7bc8f3a81e64-339700
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-cada75a5-a415-4c43-a69b-b0545ef4502f

## Description

The UK Government has committed through the Digital Strategy to making the UK the best place to start and grow a digital business\. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport \(DCMS\) leads on digital and recognises that to achieve this we need flourishing ecosystems and strong technology sectors, spread across the UK\. In November 2017, the merging of TechCity UK and Tech North was announced to speed up the growth of the UK's pioneering and innovative digital companies and clusters\. In 2018, this merger formed Tech Nation, an independent, private sector organisation, reflecting the organisation's growing focus on supporting the tech ecosystem throughout the whole of the UK\. This tender is for the evaluation of Tech Nation's work so far, assessing the impact and economic benefit of the full range of its programmes, reviewing the implementation of recommendations from previous evaluations and checking that current monitoring systems are optimum\. The tender is being procured by DCMS with Tech Nation's participation in the steering group overseeing the evaluation and will have sight of the final deliverables of the project\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/3cf9460b-4213-43c1-b460-7bc8f3a81e64-339700)