Closed tender

Thames Freeport 5G Innovation Partner

Details

Value
£1,250,000
Topic
Design and execution of research and development
Published
21 February 2025
Submission
24 March 2025

Tender description

The Thames Freeport innovation programme is developing an AI campus with industry-focused centers. Investment in 5G and AI is underway at key sites: Ford Dagenham, Port of Tilbury, and London Gateway. A partner will source global innovators to address challenges, accelerate deployment, and attract investment, aiming to cut costs, improve cargo movement, enhance security, and reduce downtime. Lot 1: The Thames Freeport innovation programme is developing an AI campus with industry-focused centers. Investment in 5G and AI is underway at key sites: Ford Dagenham, Port of Tilbury, and London Gateway. A partner will source global innovators to address challenges, accelerate deployment, and attract investment, aiming to cut costs, improve cargo movement, enhance security, and reduce downtime. Additional information: To respond to this opportunity please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/53G4R3F5K2

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published21 February 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date24 March 2025

About the buyer

Thames Freeport is a government-designated Freeport tax site covering Tilbury, DP World London Gateway and Ford's Dagenham plant, and procures through its own delivery team. A board drawing on Barking and Dagenham, Thurrock and Havering councils oversees its programmes. Tenders are published through Find a Tender and the Delta eSourcing portal. Larger schemes, such as its Sustainable Construction Programme, run as competitive procedures under the Procurement Act 2023. The Skills Programme was delivered through an appointed external delivery partner, Matt Hamnett & Associates. Programme teams handle supplier enquiries by email once a tender is live.

£434bn was the total UK public sector procurement spend in FY 2025/26.

Over the past 5 years, most of Thames Freeport's contract awards have been in research and development, business services and education and training.

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  • 73300000 · Design and execution of research and development

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