PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

PS26173 - Unlocking Space for Business Delivery Partner

DSIT · published 17 Sept 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID711b5f63-9a46-41d9-96cf-9d00cb50856d-914449
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-48941f88-3404-411b-8abd-b8982b34d04a
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-330555
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£1,562,976
award field
Tender value
Not disclosed
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
Category
services
CPV
73000000
Research and development services and related consultancy services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION ***** This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the RM6235 Space-Enabled and Geospatial Services Brief Description of Requirement The Unlocking Space for Business Programme is seeking a capable and experienced delivery partner (or consortium) to design and deliver end-user business engagement activities, to enable successful delivery of the programme through to March 2028. We expect the delivery partner to support on: Delivery of targeted Discovery Events and workshops Targeted end-user thematic engagement through the delivery partner's existing networks (e.g. life sciences and pharmaceuticals, environmental monitoring, agriculture and food supply chain) Challenge-statement development and associated event delivery (e.g. Hackathons, challenge-led events) Update external publications (building on existing USB publications including The Space Advantage Report)

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release17 Sept 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published14 Sept 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published12 Aug 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published14 Sept 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published29 Mar 2030
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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KPMG LLP

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 17 Sept 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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