Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 2 May 2025, 14:05 BST

Official UK procurement notice

UKRI-4680 Programme Management Partner

Official notice

Authority: UK Research and Innovation (Central government)

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Architecture & Engineering (71) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£16,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 7 yrsends 9 Mar 2033 · starts 10 Mar 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

STFC is seeking to establish a construction-related professional partnership to support its proposed estate transformation programme. STFC is a world-leading research and innovation organisation, with a unique role within UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). This will be a national contract covering Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and The Cosener's House, Oxfordshire, Chilbolton Observatory, Stockbridge, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, and Boulby Underground Laboratory, Cleveland.

STFC is seeking to establish a construction-related professional partnership to support its proposed estate transformation programme. This will be a national contract covering Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and The Cosener's House, Oxfordshire, Chilbolton Observatory, Stockbridge, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, and Boulby Underground Laboratory, Cleveland. STFC have identified an investment programme to address backlog maintenance, future growth and decarbonisation of its buildings and infrastructure. The programme is national, valued at approximately £120m per year and is expected to span around 15 years. STFC is seeking to engage a single partner to lead the programme, which will consist of multiple national projects running concurrently. The partner will be expected to provide programme, project, cost, and carbon management expertise while working collaboratively with STFC’s internal estates leadership and teams.

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CPV: Construction management services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Lot UKRI-4680Planned 7 yrs
Contract period: 10 Mar 2026 – 9 Mar 2033 (7 yrs)
Delivery: UK

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
2 May 2025, 14:05 BST
Last source update
2 May 2025, 14:05 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-018785
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Construction management services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050c4a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

2 May 2025 → 10 Mar 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    2 May 2025, 14:05 BST
  2. Contract starts232 days ago
    10 Mar 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    2 May 2025, 14:05 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

UK Research & Innovation

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PDQJ-7126-JDHG Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, South West, SN2 1FLContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure