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Department for Business & Trade
Critical Minerals - Demand Aggregation Platform
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £4,166,667Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 25 Aug 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
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.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 72000000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
5 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 28 Jul 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 28 July 2026.
Release 071244-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 24 Aug 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 24 August 2026. The source does not state what changed.
Release 080549-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 25 Aug 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 25 August 2026. Stated change: Addition of attachment: Specification of Requirements
Release 080736-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 25 Aug 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 25 August 2026. Stated change: Due to not being able to attach the current proposed Specification of Requirements (SoR) to the notice, we have stated in the "Engagement" section that upon registration of interest, we will provide the SoR to you.
Release 080739-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 25 Aug 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 25 August 2026. Stated change: Due to not being able to attach the current proposed Specification of Requirements (SoR) to the notice, we have provided some additional detail in the "Description" field of the "Scope" section, and stated in the "Engagement" section that upon registration of interest, we will provide the outline SoR to you which provides more detail on current thinking.
Release 080805-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
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
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
These links follow a fixed rule applied to this notice’s buyer, text and CPV codes. They are not advice on whether to bid.
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-06d550
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · planned
- Last verified
- Tue 1 Sep 2026, 08:12 BST
- Read at
- Fri 16 Oct 2026, 22:11 BST
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