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OpenStage · planning

Department for Business & Trade

Critical Minerals - Demand Aggregation Platform

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£4.2m
Deadline
Published28 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
commercialddat@businessandtrade.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£4.2mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£4.5m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Department for Business & Trade publishes IT Services work continuously — 10 notices, roughly one every 1 day. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

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The brief

A new web-based platform to help UK industry consolidate and pool its critical mineral demand across different industries, facilitate industry-led strategic offtake agreements, and help industry and Government to make better use of UK public finance to catalyse private investment.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d550
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
071244-2026
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