Notice Information
Notice Title
CSP25191 - STFC Specialist Business Support Services
Notice Description
UK Research and Innovation ("UKRI") require a supplier to provide specialist business support services for consultancy, commercial coaching and specialist training for business founders, including developing a high-performing team. The services would be delivered to third party startups that are incubated in STFC's Programmes. The outcome of these services is to help STFC to increase and accelerate the growth of UK Deep tech start-ups and so deliver a return to the UK economy and support the UK Government's Growth Mission. The user is STFC's Incubation Programmes team, who would manage the supplier(s) to deliver procured services to incubated startups. These specialist services are essential to enable the STFC team's ability to deliver our objectives.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Renewal: There will be an optional extension of 2 years for the Contracting Authority to extend on a +2 basis valued at a total off PS220,500.00 ex VAT per year. However this a estimated spend and is not committed unless the extension is utilised.
Planning Information
UK Research and Innovation, alongside UK Shared Business Services Limited will be hosting a Microsoft Teams meeting to further discuss this requirement before it goes live to the open market. This Market Engagement Day will be held on Tuesday 9th September 2025, time TBC. The session will last approximately 2 hours. In order to book a slot on this meeting, please can you provide the following information to CoreServices@uksbs.co.uk, marking the email FTO Abbie Cousens and referencing our unique reference number of CSP25191. Please note organisations will be limited to four attendees. - Attendee(s) Name - Attendee(s) Email Address - Organisation Name This notice aims to inform potential suppliers of our intention to procure and our upcoming supplier engagement event. The Contracting Authority is utilising this preliminary market engagement notice to: (a) make the market aware of the upcoming requirement (b) to better understand the market landscape of suppliers who would be able to deliver this requirement and (c) request that any interested suppliers confirm their interest in by Wednesday 3rd September 2025. Following the session, we will look to issue a market engagement questionnaire to those suppliers who have expressed interest to better inform our requirements. Any information supplied as part of preliminary market engagement shall not place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-058bb6
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/021979-2026
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK7 - Contract Details Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
80 - Education and training services
-
- CPV Codes
79996000 - Business organisation services
79998000 - Coaching services
80500000 - Training services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £441,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £441,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- £504,995 £500K-£1M
- Contracts Value
- £504,995 £500K-£1M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 11 Mar 20261 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 24 Nov 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 3 Sep 2025Expired
- Award Date
- 3 Feb 20262 months ago
- Contract Period
- 20 Feb 2026 - 19 Feb 2028 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- SWINDON
- Postcode
- SN2 1FL
- Post Town
- Swindon
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLK South West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLK7 Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLK71 Swindon
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Swindon
- Electoral Ward
- Rodbourne Cheney
- Westminster Constituency
- Swindon North
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/021979-2026
11th March 2026 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009674-2026
3rd February 2026 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/068736-2025
27th October 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/050350-2025
20th August 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender -
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https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/A-6701
CSP25191 - Request for Proposal Questions
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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