Awarded contract

PS25084 - Market Analysis - Batteries

Details

Buyer: UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS
Supplier(s): Lane Clark & Peakcock LLP
Value: £285,219.46
Duration: 2 years
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 17 December 2025
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION ***** This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the Crown Commercial Services RM6126 Research & Insights DPS Brief Description of Requirement The aim of the contract is to procure external expertise to ensure that we secure investment needed for batteries needed for 2030. This contract will be used assess the market's ability to deliver 18-22GW batteries in the next five years, with a particular focus on the investment required to deliver this; what the risks to delivery there are, and how government, National Energy System Operator (NESO), Ofgem and other organisations might start developing mitigation strategies beyond those already set out in the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan.

Timeline

Completed: Award date13 December 2025
Completed: Award published17 December 2025
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date29 October 2027in 12 months

About the buyer

UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS is a central government shared services provider whose procurement team runs procurements for public bodies such as UK Research & Innovation. Frameworks hosted by the service, such as one for laboratory consumables, are open to eligible public bodies. Advice on procurement routes and supplier performance sits with the same team. Suppliers to the shared service centre itself have mostly been appointed through Crown Commercial Service frameworks.

Over the past 5 years, most of UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS's contract awards have been in business services, software and information systems and research and development.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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