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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

UK SBS

PS25084 - Market Analysis - Batteries

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£285,219
Awarded3 Oct 2025
Published17 Dec 2025
RegionUK-wide

£285,219 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£285ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION ***** This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the Crown Commercial Services RM6126 Research & Insights DPS Brief Description of Requirement The aim of the contract is to procure external expertise to ensure that we secure investment needed for batteries needed for 2030.

This contract will be used assess the market's ability to deliver 18-22GW batteries in the next five years, with a particular focus on the investment required to deliver this; what the risks to delivery there are, and how government, National Energy System Operator (NESO), Ofgem and other organisations might start developing mitigation strategies beyond those already set out in the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan.

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What the notice asks for

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The aim of the contract is

The aim of the contract is to procure external expertise to ensure that we secure investment needed for batteries needed for 2030.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the Crown Commercial Services RM6126 Research &
what the risks to delivery there are, and how government, National Energy System Operator (NESO), Ofgem and other organisations might start developing mitigation strategies beyond those already set out in the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan.

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Stage
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