Equipment Supply and Fit-Out – Very Short Deadline

Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

EQUIPMENT SUPPLY AND FIT-OUT – VERY SHORT DEADLINE
Open
Contract type: Supply contract
Contracting authority: Coventry City Council. Web: (Catherine Barclay), CV1 5RS.
Object of the contract
UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (BiC).
The specified Industrialisation centre is part of the UK government’s faraday battery challenge. On the 29th November 2017, the secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, the RT HON Greg Clark MP, announced the consortium of awarding authority, Coventry and Warwickshire local enterprise partnership, and WMG, at the University of Warwick, had been awarded £80 million, through a competition led by the advanced propulsion centre and supported by innovate UK, to establish a new National facility.
A key element of the UK Government’s new Industrial Strategy, the Faraday Battery Challenge is to develop and manufacture batteries for the electrification of vehicles – £246 million over four years – to help UK businesses seize the opportunities presented by the move to a low carbon economy. The challenge will be split into three elements: research, innovation, and scale-up. It is among the first of six investment areas announced by the Government to be funded through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). The ISCF builds on the UK’s world-class research base and delivers the science that business needs to transform existing industries and create new ones. It accelerates commercial exploitation of the most exciting technologies the UK has to offer the world to ensure that scientific investment truly delivers economic impact, jobs and growth right across the country. The ISCF is delivered by Innovate UK and Research Councils UK (RCUK), and eventually UK Research and Innovation, the single voice for the UK’s research and innovation landscape. Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said “Battery technology is one of the most game-changing forms of energy innovation and it is one of the cornerstones of our ambition, through the Industrial Strategy and the Faraday Battery Challenge, to ensure that the UK leads the world, and reaps the economic benefits, in the global transition to a low carbon economy. “The new facility, based in Coventry and Warwickshire, will propel the UK forward in this thriving area, bringing experts from academia and industry together to deliver innovation and R&D that will further enhance the West Midlands’ international reputation as a cluster of automotive excellence.”
Supporting the Delivery of the UK’s industrial strategy opening in 2020, the UKBIC will enable industry to achieve an internationally competitive position in scaling up and commercialising advanced technologies central to the design, development and manufacture of batteries, primarily for the automotive sector but with wider application.
It will fill a strategic gap in the UK – facilitating scale up to high volume processes for battery materials, cells, modules and packs. It addresses the joined-up electrification agenda developed by the UK Automotive Council and the Advanced Propulsion Centre. It is a key element in leveraging the opportunities in electrification potentially worth £5-£50bn and driving significant jobs growth across the UK. Being centrally located in the heart of the UK, in the Coventry and Warwickshire area, it will provide excellent transport links and is near an established automotive supply chain. The location allows future expansion to include suppliers and other business opportunities.
The UKBIC delivers on the UK’s industrial strategy’s future of mobility grand challenge. it will develop the processes to transition the UK to become a world leader in design, development and manufacture of batteries for vehicle electrification.
The Centre has been developed to address the UK Automotive Council’s vision and will be a key enabler to full scale, high volume battery manufacturing (Gigafactory) and high volume electric vehicle production. This vision, developed with the automotive industry, recognises the importance of, and value that will be derived from, advances in manufacturing technology and process expertise in the delivery of the next generation of battery systems across electrode, cell, module and pack levels. This open access facility will enable companies to trial and develop high volume manufacturing processes, demonstrating ‘run-at-rate’ with flexibility to cell and module format; enabling development of manufacturing KPIs and plant ‘blueprints’. It will be a critical link in the development chain, to enable the most promising early and mid-stage research and development activities, to feed through into commercial exploitation. It will act as a focal point for collaboration, and will enable UK technology to reach the market at ground-breaking levels of performance and quality.
CPV: 38000000, 31000000, 42000000
Administrative Information
Date documents can be requested until 1.5.2018 (12:00)
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Other Information
Estimated value of requirement: £80 million
Process : OJEU
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