Cost benefit analysis contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most cost benefit analysis contracts took 20% of them (23 of 116).
• Contracts awarded per quarter held steady across the period.
• The median contract, £75k, is close to the median across consulting & accountancy contracts (£80k).

1. 1Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs10 contracts£1.2m
2. 2Department for Transport7 contracts£2.6m
3. 3Environment Agency6 contracts£514k
4. 4Homes England5 contracts£873k
5. 5Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government5 contracts£453k
6. 6Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)5 contracts£384k
7. 7Department for Business and Trade4 contracts£7.0m
8. 8Financial Conduct Authority4 contracts£280k
9. 9Greater Manchester Combined Authority4 contracts£267k
10. 10Scottish Government4 contracts£252k

1. 1London Economics6 contracts£632k
2. 2Arup5 contracts£443k
3. 3ICF4 contracts£4.9m
4. 4Frontier Economics4 contracts£2.6m
5. 5Alma Economics4 contracts£445k
6. 6SQW4 contracts£367k
7. 7Amion Consulting4 contracts£354k
8. 8RSK4 contracts£351k
9. 9Oxford Economics3 contracts£449k
10. 10Grant Thornton3 contracts£192k

Latest

• Economic Impact Assessment (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £30k

  Suffolk County Council to AECOM · Awarded 29 September 2026

• ES RDE 007 Economic assessment for UK environmental DNA strategy (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £60k

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology · Awarded 23 September 2026

• ES RDE 094 - Water Environment Value Implementation (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £115k

  Environment Agency to UEA Consulting Limited · Awarded 22 September 2026

• Homes England - Strategic Research, Evaluation and Economics Framework - Understanding Additionality for Place-Based Interventions (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £230k

  Homes England to Amion Consulting · Awarded 21 September 2026

• ES RDE 137 - Analysis of the Impacts of Yellow-Legged Hornet Presence and Respon (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £18k

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to Fera Science Limited · Awarded 21 September 2026

• Socio-Economic Benefit analysis - WISER (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £68k

  Met Office to Paul Watkiss Associates Limited · Awarded 10 September 2026

• Economic impact assessment for an outbreak of African swine fever in the UK (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £30k

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) to London Economics · Awarded 7 September 2026

• Socio-economic impacts of marine Invasive Non-Native Species - case studies from the UK (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £23k

  Natural England to PELAGOS CONSULTING LIMITED · Awarded 3 September 2026

• PS26159 - RAF002/2627 - Carbon Markets Model - Methodological Review (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £30k

  Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to NERA UK Limited · Awarded 1 September 2026

• Socio-economic impact report for the Earlham Institute (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £42k

  Earlham Institute to SQW · Awarded 1 September 2026

Largest

• Industry Econometrics Model (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £7.3m

  Rail Delivery Group to Adclaro · Awarded 3 August 2026

• DBT Research: Econometrics Call Off Contract (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.5m

  Department for Business and Trade to ICF · Awarded 12 December 2025

• TANL3071 - Provision of Value of a Life Year Research (VOLY): Lot 1 Primary Research (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.3m

  Department for Transport to Newcastle University · Awarded 20 July 2026

• Research and Insights RM6126 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.2m

  Department for Business and Trade to Frontier Economics · Awarded 4 June 2026

• Quantitative Free Trade Agreement Evaluation (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.2m

  Department for Business and Trade to Frontier Economics · Awarded 12 May 2026

Measuring or forecasting economic effects for a decision: economic and socio-economic impact assessments, economic and policy modelling, forecasting, cost-benefit analysis and environmental or natural capital valuation.

• Economic and socio-economic impact assessments
• Economic modelling such as social accounting matrices
• Econometric analysis of trade and policy
• Economic forecasts
• Natural capital and environmental damage cost valuation
• Policy modelling updates
• Intervention assessment advice

• Business cases (see Business case development (Green Book))
• Economic advice to regulators on markets and pricing (see Regulatory and competition economics)
• Local economic strategies (see Economic development, growth and skills strategies)
• Process and impact evaluation of programmes (see Impact evaluation)
• Health economics and HTA (see Health economics and health technology assessment)
• Financial models and unit costing tools (see Financial modelling and costing)
• Fair cost of care exercises and care market sustainability analysis (see Care market analysis and cost of care exercises)
• Social value and SROI measurement (see Social value strategy and measurement)

• Business mentoring
• Business case development
• Policy development
• Feasibility study

• Literature review
• Statistical reporting