Official UK procurement notice
CSP25191 - STFC Specialist Business Support Services
Procurement agent: UK Research and Innovation·On behalf of: UKSBS
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUK Research and Innovation ("UKRI") require 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.
CPV: Business organisation services · Coaching services · Training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£441,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 75%
- Commercial: 25%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical
- Commercial
- Price carries 25 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 20 Aug 2025, 20:47 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Mar 2026, 16:27 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 9 Dec 2025
- Authority reference
CSP25191- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-068736- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058bb6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 24 Nov 2025, 11:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 11 Nov 2025, 11:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
20 Aug 2025 → 11 Mar 2026 · 10 dates- Planning notice published20 Aug 2025, 20:47 BST
- Market engagement3 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
UK Research and Innovation, alongside UK Shared Business Services Limited will be hosting a Microsoft Teams meeting to further discuss this requirement before it goes live to the open market.
This Market Engagement Day will be held on Tuesday 9th September 2025, time TBC. The session will last approximately 2 hours.
In order to book a slot on this meeting, please can you provide the following information to [email protected], marking the email FTO Abbie Cousens and referencing our unique reference number of CSP25191. Please note organisations will be limited to four attendees.
- Attendee(s) Name
- Attendee(s) Email Address
- Organisation Name
This notice aims to inform potential suppliers of our intention to procure and our upcoming supplier engagement event.
The Contracting Authority is utilising this preliminary market engagement notice to:
(a) make the market aware of the upcoming requirement
(b) to better understand the market landscape of suppliers who would be able to deliver this requirement and
(c) request that any interested suppliers confirm their interest in by Wednesday 3rd September 2025.
Following the session, we will look to issue a market engagement questionnaire to those suppliers who have expressed interest to better inform our requirements.
Any information supplied as part of preliminary market engagement shall not place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process.
- Tender notice published357 days ago27 Oct 2025, 17:27 GMT
- Clarification questions by343 days ago11 Nov 2025, 11:00 GMT
- Submission deadline330 days ago24 Nov 2025, 11:00 GMT
- Award decision expected by314 days ago9 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts288 days ago5 Jan 2026
- Assessment summaries sent259 days ago3 Feb 2026
- Standstill ends249 days ago12 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice published222 days ago11 Mar 2026, 16:27 GMT
Notice history
10 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Aug 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Aug 2025, 20:47 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published27 Oct 2025, 17:27 GMTUK4
- Published value updated to £441,00027 Oct 2025, 17:27 GMTwas £392,000
- Status changed to active27 Oct 2025, 17:27 GMT
- Procurement method changed27 Oct 2025, 17:27 GMT
- Deadline published: 24 Nov 2025, 11:00 GMT27 Oct 2025, 17:27 GMT
- Contract award notice published3 Feb 2026, 17:41 GMTUK6
- Status changed to complete3 Feb 2026, 17:41 GMT
- Contract signature expected20 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
- Contract details notice published11 Mar 2026, 16:27 GMTUK7
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-08: 1 release · 20 Aug 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inventya LtdSMECSP25191 - Specialist Business Support Services23 Feb 2026 – 22 Feb 2028 · up to 22 Feb 2030Extensions: This contract has been let as 2 year initial term with the option to extend by an additional 2 years. | £504,995 | 3 Feb 2026 | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · Inventya LtdSME
- Signed
- 19 Feb 2026
- Value
- £504,995
- Period
- 20 Feb 2026 – 19 Feb 2028 · up to 19 Feb 2030 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- Option to extend for 2 years
- Options
- Option to instruct business support services for an additional 10 start ups per year on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
No agreed KPIs: Contract is not above £5 million including VAT.
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9final-stage tenders · 10 at stage one | 9 | 0 | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
3 public bodies on the noticeClients of the procurement agent
- UKSBSBeneficiary authority
- UK Shared Business Services LtdProcess contact pointProcuring entityShared Business Service provider
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- INVENTYA LTDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (8)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications CSP25191 - Request for Proposal Questions
- Bidding documents and specifications CSP25191 - UKRI Terms and Conditions
- Bidding documents and specifications CSP25191 - Pricing Schedule
- Bidding documents and specifications CSP25191 - Request for Proposal
Notices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender