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DESNZ

Climate Innovation Pull Facility - Facility Manager - Invitation to Submit Initial Tenders

Government ServicesCPV 75000000 75200000 75210000 75211000
Value£500.0m
Deadline20 Nov 2025
Published18 Nov 2025
RegionUK-wide
Timeline
Published 18 Nov 2025ClosedCloses 20 Nov 2025
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£500.0mtotal contract value
median £400k
this tender£0£540.0m

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The brief

The UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero is procuring a supplier to manage a new facility - the Climate Innovation Pull Facility.

Through pull finance, this facility will support innovation, scale up and market building for climate change mitigation solutions for developing country contexts, focusing on innovative clean energy technologies and business models in a small number of specific applications/sectors, where the evidence shows support is most needed.

In public innovation financing, "pull mechanisms" create incentives for innovators and other actors by creating viable market demand.

They seek to reduce viability gaps and induce innovation by signalling demand for solutions to specific problems.

Mechanisms often cited include Advanced Market Commitments, Results or Outcomes Based Financing, Prizes/Challenges, innovation bulk procurements, Contracts for Difference, among others.

By contrast, much innovation support has to date utilised "push mechanisms" directly subsidising up-front R&D costs.

In terms of climate mitigation solutions, the CIPF will support the development of innovation projects aligned to Ayrton Fund themes: industrial decarbonisation, sustainable cooling, smart energy systems and storage and clean transport Further details of Ayrton Fund thematic challenges are set out on gov.uk.

The procurement of this requirement will be in two parts: (i) A contract for a Facility Manager to manage the programme and identify, incubate, commission and oversee 6-10 climate pull projects of £10m - £50m each.

This contract will also cover programme monitoring and learning. ii) A separate contract for an Independent Evaluator of the programme, who will conduct a mid-term and end-of-term evaluation of the programme's achievement of its development objectives, theory of change and value for money.

This procurement is subject to a separate procurement procedure.

The procurement for the Facility Manager is the focus of this notice and will be run as a competitive procedure with negotiation.

The initial contract value is £183m over 5.5 years with options to extend by up to £317m and up to 3 additional years.

Of the £183m initial contract value, at least £150m of this will be allocated for climate pull projects, the majority of which will be grant funding.

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What the supplier must deliver

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By contrast, much innovation support has

By contrast, much innovation support has to date utilised "push mechanisms" directly subsidising up-front R&D costs.

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In terms of climate mitigation solutions,

In terms of climate mitigation solutions, the CIPF will support the development of innovation projects aligned to Ayrton Fund themes: industrial decarbonisation, sustainable cooling, smart energy systems and storage and clean transport Further details of Ayrton Fund thematic challenges are set out on gov.uk.

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