# Behavioural Insights Team

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [THE DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT](/buyers/department-for-transport/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Behavioural Insights Team](/contract-winners/behavioural-insights-team/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £29,150
- Tender value: £29,150
- Award date: 11 February 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 11 February 2016
- Contract end: 5 May 2016
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 1e4af1eb-59f2-47d1-8fa9-b795bf40e262-95062
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-98ed32b5-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

The Department for Transport \(DfT\) wishes to establish a contract with the Behavioural Insights Team \(BIT\) to oversee a project to research, develop and roll-out experimental tools for addressing common behavioural biases/heuristics in judgement and decision making in project management\. The project is being commissioned by DfT’s Governance Division and the Social and Behavioural Research \(SBR\) team\. The project will: 1\) Develop an evidence base on the availability of behavioural biases/heuristics in judgement and decision making in respect of project management\. 2\) Check how current departmental processes and systems are designed to assess the availability of behavioural biases/heuristics in judgements and decision making in relation to DfT project management and assurance\. 3\) Develop potential tools to help manage and reduce behavioural biases/heuristics in judgements and decision making in project management and assurance\. 4\) Develop a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of the tools

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1e4af1eb-59f2-47d1-8fa9-b795bf40e262-95062)