Finance & Investment Decisions Survey 2025 (Analysis)

Department for Business & Trade

Published: Feb 25, 2026

Updated: Jun 21, 2026

Source: uk_fts

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Awarded to Oxford Brookes University — £50,000

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About This Opportunity

Award notice from Department for Business & Trade (United Kingdom) — Finance & Investment Decisions Survey 2025 (Analysis). finance & banking. Awarded to.

This is a services contract in the finance and banking, architecture and engineering and trade and industry sectors, with a focus on Investment and SME development. Located in United Kingdom, Europe, this opportunity is open to firms and consortiums.

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Description

The DBT requirement is for specialist econometric analysis of the Business Finance and Investment Decision Making Survey results. IFF Research will conduct the survey in Autumn Winter 2025. The survey is a structured, quantitative telephone survey of approximately 1,500 UK businesses to provide evidence on business finance and investment decision making processes and and unlike in the previous two waves, this time there will be additional emphasis in ensuring that the survey covers key issues around personal guarantees.
Appointing Professor Marc Cowling of Oxford Brookes enables DBT to utilise his significant expertise on SME finance, familiarity with the methodology, questionnaire design, and analytical requirements ensuring efficiency and quality.
In addition to his familiarity is continuity and comparability across previous survey waves 2018, 2023, allowing the production of robust, longitudinal insights that can inform policy.

Data provenance

This notice is sourced from UK FTS - Find a Tender Service and was originally published on February 25, 2026. Last refreshed 4 days ago. Reference: 017016-2026. BidsFactory mirrors official procurement notices and links back to the source for full legal text.

About Department for Business & Trade

Department for Business & Trade has issued 69 procurement notices on BidsFactory, including 2 currently open and 64 awarded contracts. Activity concentrates in Governance & Public Administration, Trade & Commerce, and Information & Communication Technology. All notices are published for United Kingdom. Notices are distributed via UK FTS - Find a Tender Service. Most recent publication: June 18, 2026.

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Oxford Brookes University was awarded the contract for £50,000. The figure reflects the value disclosed by the contracting authority in the award notice.

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