Notice Information
Notice Title
SBRI: UKAEA Fusion industry challenges prototype development
Notice Description
This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition funded by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). This funding programme will support the UK's leadership in economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy. The aim of this competition is to encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.
Lot Information
Lot 1
A pre-commercial activity under SBRI. The aim of this competition is to encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle. Your project can focus on one or more of the following: Isotopic Enrichment - Technologies that can enrich the proportion of the minor isotope Lithium-6. - Enrichment will be essential to the fuel sustainability of many fusion power designs and, where it is not essential, can add value by boosting Tritium production. This will enable the commissioning and re-start of other fusion power plants. - Lithium enrichment represents a front-end fuel cycle service that will be demanded by fusion reactor operators around the world. Examples of performance measures that would constitute an improvement over existing Lithium enrichment technologies include: - product quality, for example, maximum enrichment level (percentage), purity and product form (metal or compound) - economics, for example, production rate, capital cost, energy and resource consumption or value of co-products - environmental and worker protection, for example, hazards, waste production, obstacles to licensing such as the Minamata Convention Tritium Extraction Technologies that can extract Tritium from a Lithium breeding material and make it available, fast and efficient enough to fuel the ongoing Deuterium-Tritium (DT) reaction. Performance parameters relevant to a fusion energy plant's fuel cycle system include: - rate of extraction - continuous operation - availability of recovered Tritium - energy cost - Conversion and Manufacturing Technologies or techniques that can convert Lithium from the form available in existing supply chains into either: - a form suitable for an isotopic enrichment process - a form required by the Tritium breeding system of a fusion energy plant Aspects relevant to a sustainable and competitive supply chain include: - raw material input forms for example, Lithium Chloride, Carbonate, Hydroxide - product output forms, for example, suitability for a variety of enrichment processes or breeding systems potential to recycle Lithium, for example, use of recycled Lithium from other sectors in fusion, or recycling of Lithium after its use in a fusion energy plant Additional information: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1572/overview/b46f6801-18ac-401d-b654-a540f79f9171#how-to-apply
Procurement Information
This was a pre-commercial procurement activity lead by Innovate UK. All information relating to the tender can be found here: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1572/overview/b46f6801-18ac-401d-b654-a540f79f9171
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-040c24
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/030386-2023
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
14 - Mining, basic metals and related products
73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
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- CPV Codes
14784000 - Lithium
73110000 - Research services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £7,410,371 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 16 Oct 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 12 Oct 20232 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- ABINGDON
- Postcode
- OX14 3DB
- Postcode Area
- Oxford
- Country
- England
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLJ South East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLJ1 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC
- Delivery Location
- TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC
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- Local Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Electoral Ward
- Sandford & the Wittenhams
- Westminster Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage
Further Information
Notice URLs
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