Published date: 17 January 2024

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


Closing: 17 July 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Industrial machinery - 42000000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£700,000 to £800,000

Procurement reference

UBIC001-DN672720-51414034

Published date

17 January 2024

Closing date

17 July 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

7 August 2023

Contract end date

5 February 2024

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This is a retender due to scope change, original notice (UBIC001-DN648650-11573400) was not awarded\r
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The UKBIC Flexible Industrialisation Line is designed to allow staged scale-up of electrode manufacture from laboratory scale through to GWh scale on UKBIC's existing high-volume electrode lines. The project will be phased and in the first phase equipment will be purchased to allow scale-up of electrode processes from the Flexible Industrialisation Line to UKBIC's high-volume electrode lines. This will incorporate mixing process compatible with UKBIC's mainline process and coating and drying equipment which will take batches of slurry and convert them onto anode and cathode foils. Subsequent equipment will incorporate next generation electrode manufacturing processes, so solutions covering both scenarios are encouraged.\r
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This new electrode capability will be supplemented by flexible equipment to Calender and slit the electrode reels allowing them to be converted into cells using the main UKBIC cylindrical and pouch cell assembly lines, or other flexible cell manufacturing equipment that may be installed during a later phase.\r
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Slitting process equipment is required to allow UKBIC to process Anode and Cathode electrodes from its own in-house Coating and Calendering processes or from third party material produced external to UKBIC.\r
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UKBIC currently has Slitting equipment in its Volume Industrialisation Line allowing for segregated Slitting of Anode and Cathode material however the size of the equipment is desired for Electrode Material at high levels of maturity and/or on a mass production scale. As a result, UKBIC is looking to install smaller equipment for customers at lower maturity level and allow for added flexibility and modularity as such that new/missing technologies from UKBICs Volume Industrialisation line can be used and proven.\r
The Slitting equipment will be installed in a new internal Clean Room facility to UKBIC and should allow for futureproofing with the known assumption of battery industry evolution and changes.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Slitter Equipment for UKBIC Flexible Industrialisation Line (FIL)

  • Opportunity
  • Published 5 June 2023

Links

Award information

Awarded date

18 December 2023

Contract start date

19 December 2023

Contract end date

30 September 2024

Total value of contract

£1,200,798

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Robust Habicht & Heuser GmbH & Co. KG

Address

42899

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement Tenders

Address

Rowley Road
Baginton
Coventry
CV8 3AL
United Kingdom

Email

ProcurementTenders@ukbic.co.uk

Website

https://www.ukbic.co.uk/