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title: "UKRI-2862 Installation of Fibre to provide Resilient Connectivity to Underground Areas"
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# UKRI-2862 Installation of Fibre to provide Resilient Connectivity to Underground Areas

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/ukri-2862-installation-of-fibre-to-provide-resilient-connectivity-to-underground-areas-ocds-h6vhtk-03a373). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** UK Research and Innovation: "UKRI-2862 Installation of Fibre to provide Resilient Connectivity to Underground Areas". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [UK Research and Innovation](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/uk-research-and-innovation-gov-pb1221)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Fibre-optic connections
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £189,968 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03a373`

## 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/ukri-2862-installation-of-fibre-to-provide-resilient-connectivity-to-underground-areas-ocds-h6vhtk-03a373#tl-md)

## Description
STFC Boulby lab operates at Boulby mine – a working Polyhalite and Salt Mine run by ICL-UK in the North East of England. This optical fibre installation work will install a secondary cable in the main mine shaft and two further cables underground, one attached to the roof of the mine tunnel between the existing laboratory and the new site and the second in a channel in the floor of the mine tunnel between the two locations. This will provide a diverse network with built in redundancy should one cable be damaged.

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

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** This project will provide a network connection to a new area of the mine which will allow an increase in experimental opportunity for the laboratory. The project will also include the installation of a replacement fibre down the 1.1km main access sha...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 003700-2023-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **AMCo-Giffen**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-74703`
  - Value: £189,968 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 003700-2023-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £189,968
  - Signed Date: 01/02/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F003700-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-02-07T12:05:07.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T16:00:08.595Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03a373