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OpenStage · planning

UK Research and Innovation

CSP25191 Specialist Business Support Services

Business ServicesCPV 79996000
Value£392k
Deadline
Published20 Aug 2025
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
commercial@ukri.org

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£392ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

UK Research and Innovation ("UKRI"), will shortly launch a procurement to appoint a supplier to provide specialist business support services for consultancy, commercial coaching and specialist training for business founders, including developing a high-performing team.

The services would be delivered to third party startups that are incubated in STFC's Programmes.

The outcome of these services is to help STFC to increase and accelerate the growth of UK Deep tech start-ups and so deliver a return to the UK economy and support the UK Government's Growth Mission.

The user is STFC's Incubation Programmes team, who would manage the supplier(s) to deliver procured services to incubated startups.

These specialist services are essential to enable the STFC team's ability to deliver our objectives.

This Contract is intended to be a 2-year agreement with the option to extend by a further 2 years with an indicative budget of £392,000.00 excluding VAT for the full duration.

Interested suppliers are to refer to the Engagement section of this notice for further details of the preliminary market engagement process being undertaken.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

UK Research and Innovation ("UKRI"), will shortly

UK Research and Innovation ("UKRI"), will shortly launch a procurement to appoint a supplier to provide specialist business support services for consultancy, commercial coaching and specialist training for business founders, including developing a high-performing team.

02

The outcome of these services is

The outcome of these services is to help STFC to increase and accelerate the growth of UK Deep tech start-ups and so deliver a return to the UK economy and support the UK Government's Growth Mission.

03

The user is STFC's Incubation Programmes team

The user is STFC's Incubation Programmes team, who would manage the supplier(s) to deliver procured services to incubated startups.

04

These specialist services are essential to enable

These specialist services are essential to enable the STFC team's ability to deliver our objectives.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058bb6
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
050350-2025
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