Published date: 22 March 2023

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 10 January 2023, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £110,000

Procurement reference

tender_342595/1193396

Published date

22 March 2023

Closing date

10 January 2023

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

6 March 2023

Contract end date

7 August 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION *****

This procurement is being concluded following a Open Market tender

Brief Description of Requirement
The research is set in the context of the new Financing Net Zero programme (FNZ), which
is soon to be launched by Innovate UK. FNZ is a £15m programme with the ambition to
accelerate finance in to 'Climate Tech'1
. Interventions are being designed to address the
huge gap between the current scale of climate tech investment and that needed for the UK
to meet its decarbonisation and economic goals.
The requirement is to perform a series of rapid studies aligned with 'deep-dive' net zero
sectors or technologies. These are:
1. Domestic building retrofit
2. Energy whole systems integration, in particular the use of digital technologies and
platforms
3. Circular critical materials, specifically Rare Earth Elements
4. Hydrogen supply chains for distribution and storage.
Focusing on the investment ecosystem and investment challenges in each deep dive area,
studies are expected to build on existing information and convene dissemination roundtables
to produce the desired research outputs.
The impact of this research is expected to be an improvement in design of FNZ. In particular
the activities related to addressing barriers for investors and understanding Innovate UK's
role in accelerating net zero finance.
As a pre-study it is also expected to lay foundations for future research, which may deepen
the analysis in one of the deep dive sectors, expand in to other sectors, and also look deeper
at specific investment challenges that cut across different sectors.

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Award information

Awarded date

3 March 2023

Contract start date

6 March 2023

Contract end date

7 August 2023

Total value of contract

£99,328

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Cleantech Group

Address

1714 Franklin St, 100-286, Oakland, California, 94612, UNITED STATES

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FF
England

Email

professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk