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# Provision of Design Team Services for SRUC’s Dairy Nexus

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-design-team-services-for-sruc-s-dairy-nexus-ocds-h6vhtk-02cbaa). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** SRUC: "Provision of Design Team Services for SRUC’s Dairy Nexus". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 30 Aug 2021, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [SRUC](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/sruc-GB-FTS-1198)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 30 August 2021 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Advisory architectural services, Architectural and related services, Architectural design services, Architectural services for buildings
- **Delivery Location:** UKM9, UKM91, UKM92
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-design-team-services-for-sruc-s-dairy-nexus-ocds-h6vhtk-02cbaa#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02cbaa`

## 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/provision-of-design-team-services-for-sruc-s-dairy-nexus-ocds-h6vhtk-02cbaa#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-design-team-services-for-sruc-s-dairy-nexus-ocds-h6vhtk-02cbaa#participate

## Description
Dairy Nexus will provide a flagship facility that re-positions the Borderlands at the forefront of industry-focused, rural co-innovation and knowledge exchange.  It will drive transformational research and innovation to decarbonise the dairy sector and move it towards a circular bioeconomy. In doing so, Dairy Nexus will deliver significant and inclusive regional growth to underpin the rural communities that are so important to the Borderlands economy and its regional identity.
Dairy Nexus will comprise:
- Co-innovation Hub with modern Knowledge Exchange facilities (linked electronically to other sites in the region) and co-working spaces
- “UK-first” Digital Twin of a dairy farm that will use cutting edge digital technologies to decarbonise forage-based dairy farming, safeguard animal health and wellbeing, accelerate productivity growth and optimise milk composition for the downstream dairy processing sector
- Modern biorefinery facilities for R&D around biorefining of manure, grass and milk, creating new value streams for dairy farming
- Modern milk technology laboratories for R&D aimed at maximising value and reducing energy consumption and waste in on-farm milk handling and storage.
By supporting a key sector in the Borderlands region, Dairy Nexus will bring additional inward investment and R&D spend to the region leading to the creation of new high-value jobs, improved productivity, increased environmental benefits and more prosperity and resilience to the region’s rural communities.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 71200000, 71210000, 71220000, 71221000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Located at SRUC’s Barony Campus, Dairy Nexus is ideally positioned to service the region’s two main centres of dairy production in Cumbria and Dumfries & Galloway. It will ensure the Borderlands is the go-to place for dairying co-innovation in a mode...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 026495-2021-21024-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Jestico + Whiles**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-32548`

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 026495-2021-21024-1 (active)

  - Signed Date: 21/10/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F026495-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-10-22T10:24:02.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T06:31:20.322Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02cbaa