Award

Digital Reporting Education & Outreach (DREO) Innovation sprint support.

THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL LIMITED

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Award

11 Feb 2026 at 17:47

Tender

02 Dec 2025 at 12:58

Summary of the contracting process

The Financial Reporting Council Limited (FRC), located in London, United Kingdom, has completed the procurement process for its initiative titled 'Digital Reporting Education & Outreach (DREO) Innovation Sprint Support'. The procurement addressed the public authority - central government industry category, focusing on services related to IT consulting and software development. Utilising an open competition below threshold procurement method, this active contract offers opportunities for innovation in digital reporting and the use of XBRL data across various locations within the UK. The procurement stage is currently at the award level, with a key contract period running from 12th January 2026 to 31st March 2026. The awarded supplier for this tender is the Open Data Institute, which will engage stakeholders and manage the innovation sprints for the FRC.

This tender heralds significant potential for business growth specifically in the FinTech, corporate reporting, and accounting sectors. Companies with expertise in IT services, consulting, software development, and Internet support are well-suited to leverage the opportunities from these innovation sprints. The procurement seeks to enable analytical insights across millions of annual reports filed in the structured digital iXBRL format. By supporting data ecosystem enhancement and fostering stakeholder engagement, businesses participating in this tender can deepen their contributions to the financial and corporate governance realm, providing solutions that uphold high standards of corporate reporting and create valuable use cases. The engagement during these sprints will also pave the way for expanding UK capital markets through innovations in data utilisation.

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Notice Title

Digital Reporting Education & Outreach (DREO) Innovation sprint support.

Notice Description

THIS IS A CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) regulates auditors, accountants and actuaries and sets the UK's Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes. As the Competent Authority for audit in the UK, we set auditing and ethical standards and monitor and enforce audit quality. The purpose of the FRC is to serve the public interest and support UK economic growth by upholding high standards of corporate governance, corporate reporting, audit and actuarial work. The FRC's Digital Reporting and Taxonomy team set the UK's digital reporting taxonomy. Our taxonomy is used by millions of companies in the UK to file annual report data to regulators and we are keen to ensure that the data is used to its fullest potential. The UK has a focus on economic growth, support for longer-term investment and a drive to maintain and enhance the UK's capital markets. A key enabler for all these goals is a data ecosystem that provides useful insights to the widest audience and at the lowest cost. To achieve this, it is critical to enable access to both the data and the tools to analyse the data. The UK is a world leader in collecting company and organisational data in structured digital form in the iXBRL (Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language) format. Of the 3.1 million accounts published annually on the Companies House register, 80% are available in iXBRL format. In addition, more than 500 issuers on regulated markets file their annual reports in iXBRL format with the FCA. The FRC was seeking a supplier to design and facilitate a Four (4) month innovation sprint, supporting the DREO initiative to: * Identify and engage relevant stakeholder groups from across the corpotate reporting, FinTech, accounting and xbrl ecosystem for the innovation sprints. * Run the innovation sprints to explore key themes and challenges related to the production and use of XBRL data from listed and non-listed company, charaties and other organisations annual accounts. And provide for the facilitation of group discussions or working groups to address, experiment with and consider technical topics and develop practical use cases based upto three regulator led challenges. * Synthesis and Report on the sprints including a final report or roadmap that brings together the insights and outputs from the engagement activities including barriers, gap analysis and use cases. * Provide programme management, stakeholder coordination, and documentation related to the sprints.

Lot Information

Lot 1

Options: Additional Services of the same nature.

Renewal: In the event of delay to the project activities and/or the inclusion of additional Services of the same nature.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ece5
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012626-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK7 - Contract Details Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Below threshold - open competition
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support


CPV Codes

72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£35,000 Under £100K
Lots Value
£35,000 Under £100K
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£34,385 Under £100K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
11 Feb 20261 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
15 Dec 2025Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
7 Jan 20261 months ago
Contract Period
12 Jan 2026 - 31 Mar 2026 1-6 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL LIMITED
Contact Name
Head of Procurement
Contact Email
procurement@frc.org.uk
Contact Phone
+442074922300

Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
E14 9GE
Post Town
East London
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI4 Inner London - East
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI42 Tower Hamlets
Delivery Location
TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England)

Local Authority
Tower Hamlets
Electoral Ward
Blackwall & Cubitt Town
Westminster Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

OPEN DATA INSTITUTE

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