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title: "Future Industries Demonstrator"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03e17a"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "LONDON LEGACY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION"
published: "2023-07-13"
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# Future Industries Demonstrator

Buyer: LONDON LEGACY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03e17a

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## Summary

The London Legacy Development Corporation has completed the procurement process for the "Future Industries Demonstrator" program, aimed at enabling Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to validate their products in the local market. The program, funded by the HM Shared Prosperity Fund, must be delivered by March 2025. It involves three cycles of an 8-week programme to support businesses operating in climate-tech related sectors, with a focus on achieving net zero by 2030 in east London. The procurement method used was an Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition.

This tender provides opportunities for businesses interested in offering experimental development services within the innovation and technology sector. Companies with expertise in advanced technologies, climate-tech sectors, and strategic supply chains would be well-suited to compete for this opportunity. The project aims to drive economic growth, foster innovation, and support businesses in achieving net zero goals by 2030, particularly in the local market around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

## Notice

Three cycles of an 8-week programme to enable Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and scaleups to validate their products in the local market through a test bedding exercise with local authorities and SHIFT partners , a group of organisations based at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park that have come together to form a new, inclusive innovation district - a living testbed that will power better urban futures through innovation, creativity, and collaboration. The service provider must demonstrate knowledge of the sub-region, its strategic supply chains, possess a mission-aligned approach to reaching net zero and driving local impact, as well as possessing the technical subject matter expertise to support businesses operating in climate-tech related sectors is required. The service must deliver subject matter expertise on advanced technologies which businesses will benefit from on this programme, creating economic growth and impact to achieve net zero by 2030 in east London.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

LLDC has carefully considered its requirements to deliver the 'Future Industries Demonstrator', which is funded by HM Shared Prosperity Fund and must be delivered by March 2025. Specifically, LLDC have a need to enable Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) who are selected through our open innovation challenge call out to test and prove their products are viable in the local market and suitable for supply chains and/or consumers. Whilst generic business support and business growth support is available widely in the marketplace, this programme requires highly specific expertise to support the development of 'innovation trial plans' to enable early-stage innovation products and services to move from early 'minimum viable product' to full scale, implementation and technology deployment within supply chains and direct to consumers, specifically in the local market around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The programme must be delivered at speed to meet the timelines of the funder.

### Procurement Information

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: *absence of competition for technical reasons *the purpose of the services is experimentation; to enable third party SME experimentation Potential routes to market were considered for the delivery of this service. The recommended route to market chosen (Plexal Product Builder) shall produce a contract between LLDC and Plexal (Group) Limited. The services for the Plexal Product Builder shall be procured under a direct award by Single Source for the following reasons: -Plexal is the only economic operator who can demonstrate a track record in supporting early stage innovation products to gain traction and success through local test bed implementation and has the required knowledge of the sub-region to enable SME's to safely deploy their technologies through local strategic supply chains and consumers. -Plexal is the only economic operator with the expertise that enables SME's to validate their product, build protypes, build business cases as well as provide support to forge partnerships to enable the live tests and wider implementation locally.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020094-2023 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 13 Jul 2023 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 9 Jul 2023 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £280,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | LONDON LEGACY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | East London |
| Postcode | E20 1JN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI41 Hackney and Newham |
| Local authority | Newham |
| Electoral ward | Stratford Olympic Park |
| Westminster constituency | Stratford and Bow |
| Delivery location | TLI London |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | PLEXAL (GROUP |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

### Codes

- 73120000 - Experimental development services

## Release History

- 13 Jul 2023 at 11:05 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020094-2023

## Notice URLs

- http://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk
- https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=795253633

## Provenance

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