# Futures support to the DfT Office for Sc

> 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: [MOTT MACDONALD LIMITED](/contract-winners/mott-macdonald/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £80,000
- Tender value: £800,000
- Award date: 19 December 2018
- Published: 29 April 2021
- Contract start: 2 January 2019
- Contract end: 31 March 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: b3853349-e566-4534-bb12-b203ce580579-432446
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-d50241c0-6690-4001-b95e-f0cbe268fb98

## Description

The purpose of this assignment is to provide Strategic Planning and Research services in the form of call off provision of 'futures' expertise, to be used to futureproof decision making, increasing resilience against future uncertainty\. This will support the DfT in the delivery of the internal DfT Transport Futures programme, which is run from the office of the Chief Scientific Adviser known as the DfT Office for Science \(DO-Science\)Transport Futures has been established to help the department anticipate future uncertainty about how we move people and goods around\. It aims to add resilience to decision-making in DfT and help it to anticipate and be able to exploit the opportunities offered by technology led change\. It will also support the Industrial Strategy Future of Mobility Grand Challenge\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b3853349-e566-4534-bb12-b203ce580579-432446)