Advanced Fuels Fund Delivery Partner FY25/26 - Direct Award

Official notice

Authority: Department for Transport (Central government)

Direct award

Sectors: Architecture & Engineering (71) Delivery: UK

Awarded value£214,000published award · exc. VAT

Awarded 27 Oct 2025no call for competition

Awarded to Ricardo AEA Ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Department for Transport is seeking to appoint a Delivery Partner to support delivery of the third window of the Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF). This will include evaluating applicants, drafting grant agreements, and monitoring the post-award funding.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: UK

71356000 Technical services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record

Procedure method: Direct award
Legal basis: UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status: Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold: Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime: Standard
Commercial structure: Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type: Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered: Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 27 Oct 2025, 16:13 GMT
Last source update: 17 Dec 2025, 11:46 GMT
Authority reference: TFTS3014
FTS notice number: 2025/S 000-083753
Latest notice: Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area: UK
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-05d48b Find a Tender

Why no open competition: Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
Published justification: It was not considered likely that we would see such an uptick in applications, and we anticipated a higher number of ineligible applications given the introduction of the SAF Mandate and therefore more defined eligibility criteria. However, 34 bids were received with only 3 eliminated, and 17 successful projects.

How it was run

Official notice

Submission deadline: —

Timeline

6 Nov 2025 → 17 Dec 2025 · 2 dates

Standstill ends355 days ago
6 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Notice published315 days ago
17 Dec 2025, 11:46 GMT

Notice history

4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Oct 2025

Transparency notice published
27 Oct 2025, 16:13 GMT
UK5
Contract award notice published
28 Oct 2025, 17:30 GMT
UK6
Contract signature expected
6 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
scheduled
Contract details notice published
17 Dec 2025, 11:46 GMT
UK7

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £214,0001 award exc. VAT

Contracts signed 1latest 8 Dec 2025

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Ricardo AEA Ltd6 Nov 2025 – 30 Jun 2026	£214,000	27 Oct 2025	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 1 · Ricardo AEA Ltd
Signed
8 Dec 2025
Value
£214,000
Period
8 Dec 2025 – 30 Jun 2026
Status
active
1 agreed KPI: Delivery, Resource, Mobilisation
- Delivery, Resource, Mobilisation, Delivery, Resource, Mobilisation

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Department for Transport

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PLTC-5358-LTWZ Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, London, SW1P 4DRContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Ricardo AEA LimitedAwarded supplierGB-PPON: PRWX-2796-TVZH Gemini Building Fermi Avenue, Harwell, South East, OX11 0QRContact email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender17 Dec 2025, 11:46 GMT
Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender28 Oct 2025, 17:30 GMT
Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender27 Oct 2025, 16:13 GMT