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CSP25191 Specialist Business Support Services
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £392,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 20 Aug 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
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.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 79996000
- 79998000
- 80500000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
4 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 20 Aug 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 20 August 2025.
Release 050350-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 27 Oct 2025Tender notice
Tender notice published 27 October 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Deadline in this release: Mon 24 Nov 2025, 11:00 GMT.
Release 068736-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 3 Feb 2026Notice
Notice published 3 February 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 009674-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 11 Mar 2026Notice
Notice published 11 March 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 021979-2026
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
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-058bb6
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 20:51 BST
- Read at
- Sun 18 Oct 2026, 04:32 BST
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