Published date: 15 May 2023

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


Closing: 3 February 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting - 31000000

  • Industrial machinery - 42000000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£4,500,000

Procurement reference

UBIC001-DN648472-60573810

Published date

15 May 2023

Closing date

3 February 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

13 July 2023

Contract end date

5 May 2025

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

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.

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.

Coating and Drying Equipment is required to allow UKBIC to produce Anode and Cathode electrodes for use on its in-house cell assembly lines. The Coating & Drying equipment will be installed in a new internal Clean Room facility to UKBIC.

UKBIC currently have Coating and Drying equipment in its Volume Industrialisation Line allowing for a segregated Coating of Anode and Cathode slurries, however the size of the equipment is designed for Electrode Material at high levels of maturity and/or at mass production scale. UKBIC is looking to install smaller equipment to support customers at a lower maturity level and allow for a wider range of chemistries. A flexible and modular solution is required to enable UKBIC to be less restricted in its Process Equipment offering and for a more Research and Development focused approach to Coating & Drying albeit on a scale larger than lab-based systems.

Further to the general equipment requirement it necessary to offer a solvent/abatement system internal/external to the UKBIC facility to allow for safe solvent emission control and management from the drying process.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Coating and Drying Equipment for UKBIC Flexible Industrialisation Line (FIL)

  • Opportunity
  • Published 19 December 2022

Links

Award information

Awarded date

2 May 2023

Contract start date

15 May 2023

Contract end date

1 September 2025

Total value of contract

£5,643,634.05

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Mathis AG

Address

Ruetisbergstrasse 3
CH-8156 Oberhasli
Switzerland

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

Telephone

+44 2475267743

Email

ProcurementTenders@ukbic.co.uk

Website

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