DfT National Freight Model
Buyer: Department for Transport
- Published
- 8 September 2026
- Submission deadline
- 9 October 2026
- Estimated value
- £1,950,000
- Place of performance
- UK
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Lots
- 1
- Documents
- 1
- Notice number
- 084877-2026
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-067ac4
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 73110000Research services
- 71311200Transport systems consultancy services
- 73210000Research consultancy services
Description
The Department for Transport (DfT) intends to procure a supplier to develop a new National Freight Model (NFM), an in-house, cross-modal freight modelling capability designed to support transport policy development, appraisal, forecasting and decision-making across the UK. The NFM will replace existing freight modelling approaches and provide a modern analytical framework capable of representing freight movements across road, rail and domestic maritime modes. The contract will include the design, development, calibration, validation and implementation of a multimodal freight model capable of estimating current and future freight demand and flows by commodity, vehicle type and transport mode. The model must support the analysis of domestic freight movements and international freight movements to and from the United Kingdom, including maritime and rail freight services. The NFM will be required to assess the impacts of changes to infrastructure, land use, economic conditions, logistics behaviours and government policy interventions. It will also enable the testing of alternative scenarios and sensitivities to support transport planning, network resilience analysis, decarbonisation in…
Official publications
- FTS · 084877-2026 · 8 September 2026
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- The estimated value published by the buyer is £1,950,000.
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- The contracting authority is Department for Transport (United Kingdom).
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