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ORE Catapult

Steel Storage Building

Construction MaterialsCPV 44000000 44200000 44210000 44211000 45000000 45200000 45210000 45213000 45260000 45262000
Value£338k
Awarded18 Mar 2022
Published8 Feb 2023
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£338ktotal contract value
median £135k
this tender£0£4.1m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Construction Materials & Structures band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 10,341 valued Construction Materials & Structures tenders in our corpus.

The brief

ORE Catapult currently operate its test facilities in Blyth, Northumberland which test and validates new renewable technologies.

Its Charles Parsons facility specialise in providing extensive test programmes across a wide variety of complex electrical transmission and distribution infrastructure, operated from UKAS-accredited laboratories.

They work with clients on component development, materials selection, system certification, electrical grid integration and accelerated lifetime test programme delivery, improving reliability and ensuring complex multiple arrays and generation sources operate at optimum efficiency.

To improve the functionality and flexibility of the laboratories at the Charles Parsons facility, there is now a requirement for a new steel storage building to enable the current mezzanine test area, inside Charles Parsons itself, to be better utilised as a test laboratory.

To allow for flexibility in approach, ORE Catapult is prepared to consider tender responses for either one of the following Options: Option 1: Design and construction of the steel storage building, (new or used will be considered as long as the used model is not too far removed from the specification), or Option 2: Design and construction of both the steel storage building (new or used) and all the necessary civil works.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

They work with clients on component development

They work with clients on component development, materials selection, system certification, electrical grid integration and accelerated lifetime test programme delivery, improving reliability and ensuring complex multiple arrays and generation sources operate at optimum efficiency.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

UKAS accreditationCertification & assessment schemes
Its Charles Parsons facility specialise in providing extensive test programmes across a wide variety of complex electrical transmission and distribution infrastructure, operated from UKAS-accredited laboratories.

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Source & provenance
OCID
0ae5f855-8eb0-4d75-b456-a3851e1e0666
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
OREC001-DN598103-37309263
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