{ "tag": [ "compiled" ], "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-040c24-2023-10-16T08:51:24+01:00", "date": "2023-10-16T08:51:24+01:00", "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-040c24", "initiationType": "tender", "tender": { "id": "T/VT043/23", "legalBasis": { "id": "32014L0024", "scheme": "CELEX" }, "title": "SBRI: UKAEA Fusion industry challenges prototype development", "status": "complete", "classification": { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "73110000", "description": "Research services" }, "mainProcurementCategory": "services", "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.", "lots": [ { "id": "1", "description": "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", "awardCriteria": { "criteria": [ { "name": "Proposed idea or technology", "type": "quality", "description": "10" }, { "name": "Technical project summary", "type": "quality", "description": "20" }, { "name": "Current state of the art and intellectual property", "type": "quality", "description": "15" }, { "name": "Project plan and methodology", "type": "quality", "description": "15" }, { "name": "Technical team and expertise", "type": "quality", "description": "15" }, { "name": "Commercial potential", "type": "quality", "description": "15" }, { "name": "Costs and value for money", "type": "cost", "description": "10" } ] }, "hasOptions": false, "status": "cancelled" } ], "items": [ { "id": "1", "additionalClassifications": [ { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "14784000", "description": "Lithium" } ], "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UKJ14" } ], "relatedLot": "1" } ], "procurementMethod": "limited", "procurementMethodDetails": "Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition", "coveredBy": [ "GPA" ], "reviewDetails": "VI.4.2)Body responsible for mediation procedures VI.4.3)Review procedure Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: Precommercial procurement activity not subject to Public Contract Regulations 2015.", "procurementMethodRationaleClassifications": [ { "scheme": "TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL", "id": "D_OUTSIDE_SCOPE", "description": "The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive" } ], "procurementMethodRationale": "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" }, "awards": [ { "id": "030386-2023-1", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle", "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-44949", "name": "Bangor University" } ] }, { "id": "030386-2023-2", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.", "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-95375", "name": "Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd" } ] }, { "id": "030386-2023-3", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.", "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-95376", "name": "University of Bristol" } ] }, { "id": "030386-2023-4", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.", "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-95376", "name": "University of Bristol" } ] }, { "id": "030386-2023-5", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.", "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-95377", "name": "University of Edinburgh" } ] }, { "id": "030386-2023-6", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.", "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-95378", "name": "University of Manchester" } ] } ], "parties": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-1212", "name": "United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority", "identifier": { "legalName": "United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority", "id": "N/A" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Culham Science Centre", "locality": "Abingdon", "region": "UKJ14", "postalCode": "OX14 3DB", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "contactPoint": { "name": "Suleiman Deen", "email": "suleiman.deen@ukaea.uk" }, "roles": [ "buyer" ], "details": { "url": "http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-atomic-energy-authority", "buyerProfile": "https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/72814", "classifications": [ { "scheme": "TED_CA_TYPE", "id": "BODY_PUBLIC", "description": "Body governed by public law" }, { "scheme": "COFOG", "description": "Fusion Research" } ] } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-44949", "name": "Bangor University", "identifier": { "legalName": "Bangor University" }, "address": { "locality": "Bangor", "region": "UKL12", "postalCode": "LL57 2DG", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "large" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-95375", "name": "Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd", "identifier": { "legalName": "Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd" }, "address": { "locality": "Leatherhead", "region": "UKJ2", "postalCode": "KT22 7NL", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "large" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-95376", "name": "University of Bristol", "identifier": { "legalName": "University of Bristol" }, "address": { "locality": "Bristol", "region": "UKK11", "postalCode": "BS81QU", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "large" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-95377", "name": "University of Edinburgh", "identifier": { "legalName": "University of Edinburgh" }, "address": { "locality": "Edinburgh", "region": "UKM75", "postalCode": "EH8 9YL", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "large" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-95378", "name": "University of Manchester", "identifier": { "legalName": "University of Manchester" }, "address": { "locality": "Manchester", "region": "UKD33", "postalCode": "M13 9PL", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "large" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-1213", "name": "UK Atomic Energy Authority", "identifier": { "legalName": "UK Atomic Energy Authority" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Culham Science Centre", "locality": "Abingdon", "postalCode": "OX14 3DB", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "reviewBody", "mediationBody", "reviewContactPoint" ], "details": { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-atomic-energy-authority" } } ], "buyer": { "id": "GB-FTS-1212", "name": "United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority" }, "contracts": [ { "id": "030386-2023-1", "awardID": "030386-2023-1", "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 1164578, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2023-10-12T00:00:00+01:00" }, { "id": "030386-2023-2", "awardID": "030386-2023-2", "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 1498332, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2023-10-12T00:00:00+01:00" }, { "id": "030386-2023-3", "awardID": "030386-2023-3", "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 726383, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2023-10-12T00:00:00+01:00" }, { "id": "030386-2023-4", "awardID": "030386-2023-4", "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 1237502, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2023-10-12T00:00:00+01:00" }, { "id": "030386-2023-5", "awardID": "030386-2023-5", "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 1497970, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2023-10-12T00:00:00+01:00" }, { "id": "030386-2023-6", "awardID": "030386-2023-6", "title": "Encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle.", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 1285606, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2023-10-12T00:00:00+01:00" } ], "bids": { "statistics": [ { "id": "1", "measure": "bids", "relatedLot": "1", "value": 21 }, { "id": "2", "measure": "bids", "relatedLot": "1", "value": 21 }, { "id": "3", "measure": "bids", "relatedLot": "1", "value": 21 }, { "id": "4", "measure": "bids", "relatedLot": "1", "value": 21 }, { "id": "5", "measure": "bids", "relatedLot": "1", "value": 21 }, { "id": "6", "measure": "bids", "relatedLot": "1", "value": 21 } ] }, "language": "en" }