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UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
Engineering Biology Infrastructure Programme.
Historical: no longer open for bids.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £141,293Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- Fri 2 Oct 2026, 11:00 BSTA deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Fri 2 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST, which is not an open deadline.
- Published
- 22 Oct 2026
- Region
- North East, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
02/ The brief
What the notice says
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***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION *****
This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the GCA RM6126 - Research & Insights Framework.
Brief overview of the requirement.
The Engineering Biology Infrastructure Programme (EBIP) is a core delivery component of the wider UKRI Engineering Biology Programme (EBP) and contributes directly to the Government's Industrial Strategy and DSIT priorities. The programme addresses a critical systemic failure: the UK's inability to scale engineering biology innovations from laboratory (TRL 3-4) to pilot-commercial deployment (TRL 6-7).
Despite strong research capability and SME innovation, the UK ecosystem is constrained by:
• limited access to pilot and demonstration-scale infrastructure
• high costs and barriers to facility access
• fragmented and poorly coordinated infrastructure landscape
• underutilisation of existing assets
• gaps in scale-up skills and operational capability
• insufficient capital for infrastructure-intensive scale-up.
This results in a "scale-up bottleneck", leading to stalled commercialisation, relocation of companies overseas and loss of UK-funded IP and economic value. The Engineering Biology Infrastructure Programme (EBIP) addresses this major UK
challenge in scaling engineering biology innovations from research to commercial deployment. A significant part of the programme is the Scale-up infrastructure fund (£132m), which will establish new and enhance existing scale-up facilities to meet the needs of UK innovators.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 73000000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
2 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 22 Oct 2026Award notice
Award notice published 22 October 2026.
Deadline in this release: Fri 2 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST.
Release 64375ef5-ab83-4ec1-a306-1509b1cdfdff-918723
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Contract notice published 22 October 2026. The source does not state what changed.
Release cf-v2:28a8c5a7623d020b1ea051eec1abd21099c5a26cf093cdb376f6059725c2f3fe
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
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08/ Related
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- Reference
- 64375ef5-ab83-4ec1-a306-1509b1cdfdff
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Stage
- award · Awarded
- Last verified
- Fri 23 Oct 2026, 07:16 BST
- Read at
- Fri 23 Oct 2026, 10:18 BST
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