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Merit has been officially appointed through the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) RM6184 Offsite Construction Solutions Framework - Lot 2.2, to undertake work for the Industrialisation Project. The specific scope of work for the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) involves the construction and installation of new clean and dry rooms, covering a total area of 800 square meters. This appointment signifies a crucial step forward in enhancing the industrial facilities at UKBIC, ensuring state-of-the-art environments for various industrial applications.

The United Kingdom Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) UKBIC is currently seeking a dedicated service provider to deliver comprehensive cleaning services across our entire site. The supplier shall be required to implement a robust two-tiered approach, ensuring that the cleanliness standards of two distinct cleaning models are met. The supplier must demonstrate a thorough understanding of both cleaning models and exhibit the capability to seamlessly integrate these services into our existing operations, while also being flexible to adapt to any future needs or changes. The cleaning services will not be divided into LOTS.\r \r The contract duration is set for 36 months, with the possibility of extending for an additional 12 months, potentially making it a 4-year contract.\r \r The scope of services includes, but is not limited to:\r \r • Main Building Cleaning\r • Technical Cleaning\r • Hygiene services\r • Window cleaning\r • Carpet cleaning\r • Water Cooler Rental\r • Pest Management\r \r This is a Restricted tender, which consists of 4 stages\r \r Stage 1 Pre-Qualification and Short-listing\r Evaluation of submitted information to determine eligibility to be invited to tender. A short list resulting from this assessment of a minimum of five (5) Candidates (where there are at least five (5) suitably qualified, experienced Candidates). Where there are less than five (5) suitably qualified Candidates, all suitably qualified Candidates will be invited to proceed to Stage 2 submissions.\r All SQ responses shall be considered / evaluated following the published deadline date / time for submission. All Candidates shall be advised of their status and only those short listed shall be issued the Invitation to tender (ITT). UKBIC may, at its sole discretion, decide not to proceed to Stage 2 if it is deemed not to be in our best interest to do so. Candidates will be required to sign an NDA before proceeding to Stage 2.\r \r \r Stage 2 Tender Submission\r Candidates shall be required to submit Tenders in accordance with the details / instructions set out in the ITT.\r \r \r Stage 3 Tender Evaluation\r Tenders received shall be evaluated and scored against a predefined and advertised matrix as per this ITT.\r \r \r Stage 4 Contract Award\r Successful Candidates notified in writing.\r Unsuccessful Candidates notified in writing and feedback offered if required.\r Ten (10) day mandatory stand still period will be applied.

This is an Award Notification Original description below: A new single chiller was required to serve a back-up to an existing Daikin chiller. The system serves the building 1°C cooling coils located within 9 No. Dehumidifiers that maintain a set dew-point within existing clean & dry rooms. The current 1˚C chiller circuit is supplied by a single chiller. This circuit supplies the 9 dehumidifier units which serve the cell assembly rooms to achieve the target dew point for this area. The single chiller does not have any back up unit or resilience to prevent the room conditions from being compromised. The requirement of this document is to implement a resilience chiller which will supply chilled water in the event of a failure on the current system and not provide additional capacity to the circuit. The system already has provision to install and additional chiller in parallel to the current asset.

This is a contract award notification The United Kingdom Battery Industrialisation Centre is seeking a dedicated service provider to deliver comprehensive Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) services across the entire site. The selected supplier will be responsible for providing an on-site engineer who will manage the service-level assets effectively, ensuring seamless support for the operation and delivery of our products. The supplier should demonstrate a commitment to maintaining high standards of service and operational efficiency, ensuring that all M&E services are delivered in a timely and professional manner The contract term will be for 36 months with the option to extend for a further 12 months making this contract potentially a 4-year contract agreement.

This is a contract award notice Description of the original requirement below: The UKBIC Flexible Industrialisation Line is designed to allow staged scale-up of electrode manufacture from laboratory scale through to GWh scale on UKBIC’s existing high-volume electrode lines. The project will be phased and in the first phase equipment will be purchased to allow scale-up of electrode processes from the Flexible Industrialisation Line to UKBIC’s high-volume electrode lines. This will incorporate mixing process compatible with UKBIC’s mainline process and coating and drying equipment which will take batches of slurry and convert them onto anode and cathode foils. Subsequent equipment will incorporate next generation electrode manufacturing processes, so solutions covering both scenarios are encouraged. This new electrode capability will be supplemented by flexible equipment to Calender and slit the electrode reels allowing them to be converted into cells using the main UKBIC cylindrical and pouch cell assembly lines, or other flexible cell manufacturing equipment that may be installed during a later phase. Mixing Equipment is required to allow UKBIC to produce Anode and Cathode slurries for use on its in-house Coating Processes. The Mixing equipment will be installed in a new internal Clean Room facility to UKBIC UKBIC currently have Mixing equipment in its Volume Industrialisation Line allowing for a segregated Mixing of Anode and Cathode material, however the size of the equipment is designed for Electrode Material at high levels of maturity and/or at mass production scale. UKBIC is looking to install smaller equipment to support customers at a lower maturity level and allow for a wider range of chemistries. A flexible and modular solution is required to enable UKBIC to be less restricted in its Process Equipment offering and for a more Research and Development focused approach to Mixing albeit on a scale larger than lab-based systems.

This is a contract award notice Description of the original requirement below: The UKBIC Flexible Industrialisation Line is designed to allow staged scale-up of electrode manufacture from laboratory scale through to GWh scale on UKBIC’s existing high-volume electrode lines. The project will be phased and in the first phase equipment will be purchased to allow scale-up of electrode processes from the Flexible Industrialisation Line to UKBIC’s high-volume electrode lines. This will incorporate mixing process compatible with UKBIC’s mainline process and coating and drying equipment which will take batches of slurry and convert them onto anode and cathode foils. Subsequent equipment will incorporate next generation electrode manufacturing processes, so solutions covering both scenarios are encouraged. This new electrode capability will be supplemented by flexible equipment to Calender and slit the electrode reels allowing them to be converted into cells using the main UKBIC cylindrical and pouch cell assembly lines, or other flexible cell manufacturing equipment that may be installed during a later phase. Calendering Equipment is specifically required to allow UKBIC to process Anode and Cathode electrodes from its own in-house Coating processes or from third party material produced external to UKBIC. UKBIC currently has Calendering equipment in its Volume Industrialisation Line allowing for segregated Calendering of Anode and Cathode material however the size of the equipment is desired for Electrode Material at high levels of maturity and/or on a mass production scale. As a result, UKBIC is looking to install smaller equipment for customers at lower maturity level and allow for added flexibility and modularity as such that new/missing technologies from UKBICs Volume Industrialisation line can be used and proven. The Calendering equipment will be installed in a new internal Clean Room facility to UKBIC and should allow for futureproofing with the known assumption of battery industry evolution and changes.

This is a Contract Award Notification, LOT 2 not awarded Previous description below: This is a single stage tender split into two lots (Tenderers can tender for one or both lots): Lot 1 - Flexible Industrialisation Line (Electrode 1&2 and Industrialisation) Lot 2 - Industrial Analysis Laboratory (IAL) The objective of this ITT is to identify a contractor that has the relevant experience, skillset & capacity to design and build the new facilities. Lot 1 – Industrialisation The design of the Industrialisation facility within Lot 1 has not progressed further than a general arrangement layout. Although this will not form part of the tender analysis exercise Tenderers are asked to complete the CSA provided in order for UK BIC to budget accordingly. Lot 2 - Industrialisation Analysis Laboratory (IAL) The design of IAL has been developed to RIBA Stage 3 and all associated drawings and specifications are included within the tender pack and will be procured on a single stage design and build basis. - Design of the following packages have been developed sufficiently for tenderers to submit a fixed price - Substructure - Superstructure - Internal Finishes - Ventilation Systems - Electrical (LV distribution, Lighting & Small Power) Please register you interest in the link below, the tender documents will be viewable once expression of interest has been accepted.

UKBIC currently has two main cell designs that can be manufactured on its current Volume Industrialisation Lines (VIL), a 300 x 100 pouch cell design and a 21700 cylindrical cell design. This tender is to potentially upgrade the pouch cell assembly line by replacing the current notching and stacking equipment with a more advanced system enabling greater accuracy and control than can currently be achieved. This tender is to upgrade the current UKBIC pouch cell assembly line by replacing the existing electrode notching & stacking equipment with a more advanced system to be delivered by the successful bidder.

Extrusion Mixing Equipment is required to allow UKBIC to produce Anode and Cathode slurries for use on its in-house Coating Processes. The Mixing equipment will be installed in a new internal Clean Room facility to UKBIC. UKBIC currently have Mixing equipment in its Volume Industrialisation Line allowing for a segregated Mixing of Anode and Cathode material, however the size of the equipment is designed for Electrode Material at high levels of maturity and/or at mass production scale. UKBIC is looking to install smaller equipment to support customers at a lower maturity level and allow for a wider range of chemistries. A flexible and modular solution is required to enable UKBIC to be less restricted in its Process Equipment offering and for a more Research and Development focused approach to Mixing albeit on a scale larger than lab-based systems. UKBIC will consider procurement of one or two Extrusion Mixing Plants wherein the technical content will be refined to differentiate between the areas. These will supplement two off intensive Mixing plants already existing within FIL.

Our organisation is embarking on a comprehensive transformation of our manufacturing processes and data management capabilities. As part of this process, we want to appoint a supplier than can provide a comprehensive solution for the following tasks: We are looking to replace our current MES system. Due to the nature of the type of work that we do at UKBIC and the differing levels of product maturity it is vital that we can give our customers as much information as possible about their products movement whilst in our facility. This Project is split into 3 LOTS LOT 1 a. Replacement of our existing Manufacturing Execution System (MES) b. Implementation of a Process Historian c. Integration of an ETL layer d. Development of a robust Data Analysis/Visualization package LOT 2 a. Deployment of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) LOT 3 a. Discrete Event Simulation. b. Finite Element Analysis. c. Discrete Element Modelling. d. Computational Fluid Dynamics in particular Finite Volume Method.

The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) is part of the UK Government’s Faraday Battery Challenge. UKBIC is a national battery manufacturing development facility helping to scale-up battery manufacturing and facilitate upskilling in the battery sector. We are a publicly funded, open access facility, funded by the Faraday Battery Challenge at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The facility currently has two main cell designs that can be manufactured on its current production lines, a 300 x 100 pouch cell design and a 21700 cylindrical cell design. To better support the industry UKBIC is considering investment in additional cell assembly lines such as for tab-less cylindrical cells and prismatic cells. A pre-requisite for doing this is to have well developed cell designs with which UKBIC can engage with potential equipment suppliers and so this is the purpose of this “Cell Assembly Enabler” project. The cell designs being considered have been split into two lots and bidders are invited to submit tenders for either or both lots according to their experience and expertise.

Bulk bag decanting equipment is required to enable UKBIC to handle battery materials in bulk, facilitating industrialization of battery cells through large batch manufacturing. The equipment is necessary to enable decanting of bulk bags to small bags that can be processed via the UKBIC FIL and VIL mixing plant. The Equipment is required to decant bulk bags 1,000kg into 25kg bags.

Retender due to scope change Original notice number : 2022/S 000-035894 The UKBIC Flexible Industrialisation Line is designed to allow staged scale-up of electrode manufacture from laboratory scale through to GWh scale on UKBIC’s existing high-volume electrode lines. The project will be phased and in the first phase equipment will be purchased to allow scale-up of electrode processes from the Flexible Industrialisation Line to UKBIC’s high-volume electrode lines. This will incorporate mixing process compatible with UKBIC’s mainline process and coating and drying equipment which will take batches of slurry and convert them onto anode and cathode foils. Subsequent equipment will incorporate next generation electrode manufacturing processes, so solutions covering both scenarios are encouraged. This new electrode capability will be supplemented by flexible equipment to Calender and slit the electrode reels allowing them to be converted into cells using the main UKBIC cylindrical and pouch cell assembly lines, or other flexible cell manufacturing equipment that may be installed during a later phase. Slitting process equipment is required to allow UKBIC to process Anode and Cathode electrodes from its own in-house Coating and Calendering processes or from third party material produced external to UKBIC. UKBIC currently has Slitting equipment in its Volume Industrialisation Line allowing for segregated Slitting of Anode and Cathode material however the size of the equipment is desired for Electrode Material at high levels of maturity and/or on a mass production scale. As a result, UKBIC is looking to install smaller equipment for customers at lower maturity level and allow for added flexibility and modularity as such that new/missing technologies from UKBICs Volume Industrialisation line can be used and proven. The Slitting equipment will be installed in a new internal Clean Room facility to UKBIC and should allow for futureproofing with the known assumption of battery industry evolution and changes.

This is an Award Notice and this opportunity has now closed. Please see Section V (Award of Contract) for further details. Please see original requirement below: The UKBIC Flexible Industrialisation Line is designed to allow staged scale-up of electrode manufacture from laboratory scale through to GWh scale on UKBIC’s existing high-volume electrode lines. The project will be phased and in the first phase equipment will be purchased to allow scale-up of electrode processes from the Flexible Industrialisation Line to UKBIC’s high-volume electrode lines. This will incorporate mixing process compatible with UKBIC’s mainline process and coating and drying equipment which will take batches of slurry and convert them onto anode and cathode foils. Subsequent equipment will incorporate next generation electrode manufacturing processes, so solutions covering both scenarios are encouraged. This new electrode capability will be supplemented by flexible equipment to Calender and slit the electrode reels allowing them to be converted into cells using the main UKBIC cylindrical and pouch cell assembly lines, or other flexible cell manufacturing equipment that may be installed during a later phase. Phase one of the project also includes the installation of a Cell Cycling Facility for manufacturing conformance testing of cells manufactured at UKBIC. Cell cycling equipment for manufacturing conformance testing of battery cells made at UKBIC. This requirement is split into three lots: Lot 1 – Cell Cyclers Lot 2 – Temperature Test Chambers Lot 3 – Cell Fixturing Suppliers will be able to bid for individual lots, however bids that offer combined solutions incorporating more than one aspect (lot) of this equipment are encouraged. Please see Appendix 1 -User requirements specification for the complete requirements.

This is a contract award notice Description of the original requirement below: The UKBIC Flexible Industrialisation Line is designed to allow staged scale-up of electrode manufacture from laboratory scale through to GWh scale on UKBIC’s existing high-volume electrode lines. The project will be phased and in the first phase equipment will be purchased to allow scale-up of electrode processes from the Flexible Industrialisation Line to UKBIC’s high-volume electrode lines. This will incorporate mixing process compatible with UKBIC’s mainline process and coating and drying equipment which will take batches of slurry and convert them onto anode and cathode foils. Subsequent equipment will incorporate next generation electrode manufacturing processes, so solutions covering both scenarios are encouraged. This new electrode capability will be supplemented by flexible equipment to Calender and slit the electrode reels allowing them to be converted into cells using the main UKBIC cylindrical and pouch cell assembly lines, or other flexible cell manufacturing equipment that may be installed during a later phase. Coating and Drying Equipment is required to allow UKBIC to produce Anode and Cathode electrodes for use on its in-house cell assembly lines. The Coating & Drying equipment will be installed in a new internal Clean Room facility to UKBIC. UKBIC currently have Coating and Drying equipment in its Volume Industrialisation Line allowing for a segregated Coating of Anode and Cathode slurries, however the size of the equipment is designed for Electrode Material at high levels of maturity and/or at mass production scale. UKBIC is looking to install smaller equipment to support customers at a lower maturity level and allow for a wider range of chemistries. A flexible and modular solution is required to enable UKBIC to be less restricted in its Process Equipment offering and for a more Research and Development focused approach to Coating & Drying albeit on a scale larger than lab-based systems. Further to the general equipment requirement it necessary to offer a solvent/abatement system internal/external to the UKBIC facility to allow for safe solvent emission control and management from the drying process.