Expired contract

IUK Foresighting causing action in year project

Details

Buyer: ORE Catapult
Supplier(s): SKILLZ MINER LIMITED
Value: £701,400
Duration: 4 months
Topic: Research and development consultancy services
Published: 2 December 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

This Direct Award outlines a six-month collaborative research project between ORE Catapult and Skillsminer.ai, supported by the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) to transform Workforce Foresighting outputs into a practical, data-driven Workforce Intelligence product. The project will bridge the gap between strategic foresighting and workforce action, enabling industry and educators to plan for the clean energy transition with clarity and precision. By translating workforce foresight data into tangible operational skills insights, we will help businesses within the ORE Catapult network and beyond to identify emerging capability requirements, map reskilling pathways, and strengthen UK industrial competitiveness. To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=1001651860 ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published2 December 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date2 December 2025
Completed: Contract expiry date31 March 2026

About the buyer

ORE Catapult is a not-for-profit research organisation set up in 2013 as part of Innovate UK's Catapult network, and buys as a private body with some public funding. Standard terms and conditions cover goods, services, consultancy, and combined goods and services contracts. Separate documented processes apply to goods and services purchasing and to works purchasing. A grant funding agreement can require compliance with public procurement rules for some requirements.

Over the past 5 years, most of ORE Catapult's contract awards have been in construction work, IT services and laboratory and precision equipment.

Decision makers

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