Buyer
Department for Transport
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DfT National Freight Model
Department for Transport · United Kingdom
⏳ Closes 09 Oct 2026 — 7 days left
Location
United Kingdom
Category
Services
Type
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Estimated value
£1,950,000
EMD / Bid security
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Tender fee
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Published
08 Sep 2026
Closing
09 Oct 2026
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About this tender
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