# Metrology Horizon Scan

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department for Business and Trade](/buyers/department-for-business-and-trade/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: ForgeFront Ltd
- Award value: £120,000
- Tender value: £120,000
- Award date: 3 April 2025
- Published: 7 April 2025
- Contract start: 7 April 2025
- Contract end: 6 January 2026
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 1a83f71f-064f-4a1d-bb0c-a7b34dcb649c-838825
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-ceff4396-cc2b-43b7-83b7-2673a570f5d5

## Description

The metrology team is looking to undertake its first horizon scan for OPSS and where new technologies are identified \(for the purpose of measuring or weighing\), review current regulations to determine how the new technologies impact upon them\. This will involve undertaking literature reviews of new technologies covering legal metrology, metrology utilised for Net Zero and potentially identifying new metrological areas for regulation\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1a83f71f-064f-4a1d-bb0c-a7b34dcb649c-838825)