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title: "Blade Test Facility 3 - ORE/22/089"
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# Blade Test Facility 3 - ORE/22/089

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/blade-test-facility-3-ore-22-089-ocds-h6vhtk-037d70). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult: "Blade Test Facility 3 - ORE/22/089". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 29 Nov 2022, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/offshore-renewable-energy-catapult-GB-FTS-19940)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 29 November 2022 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive procedure with negotiation
- **Main Category:** works
- **Classifications (CPV):** Research and testing facilities construction work
- **Delivery Location:** UKC21
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-037d70`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/blade-test-facility-3-ore-22-089-ocds-h6vhtk-037d70#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FAdvert%2FIndex%3FadvertId%3D8822b81d-f155-ed11-811a-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/blade-test-facility-3-ore-22-089-ocds-h6vhtk-037d70#participate

## Description
ORE Catapult intends to expand its wind turbine test capabilities by constructing a new blade test facility (“BTF3”), capable of full-scale testing of blades up to 150m in length, and optionally expanding to test blades up to 180m. ORE Catapult intends to appoint a single contractor (or consortium) to design, procure, construct and commission BTF3 at its Blyth site, which may comprise of a reaction structure onto which the blades are mounted, appropriate floor structures, a building to totally or partially encompass the test site and associated hydraulics, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation & control systems.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active

- **Delivery regions:** UKC

- **Description:** This tender is being issued by the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (‘ORE Catapult’) as a competitive procurement exercise in accordance with the ‘Competitive Procedure with Negotiation’ for tendering under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as...
- **Contract Period:**  to 31/07/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F030574-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-10-28T15:26:14.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T13:01:23.383Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-037d70