📋 Tender Overview
Contract Award for Contract awarded for : Engineering Biology Infrastructure Programme.
this is an award notice, not a call for competition
this procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the gca rm6126 - research & insights framework.
brief overview of the requirement.
the engineering biology infrastructure programme ebip is a core delivery component of the wider ukri engineering biology programme ebp and contributes directly to the governments industrial strategy and dsit priorities. the programme addresses a critical systemic failure: the uks inability to scale engineering biology innovations from laboratory trl 3-4 to pilot-commercial deployment trl 6-7.
despite strong research capability and sme innovation, the uk ecosystem is constrained by:
• limited access to pilot and demonstration-scale infrastructure
• high costs and barriers to facility access
• fragmented and poorly coordinated infrastructure landscape
• underutilisation of existing assets
• gaps in scale-up skills and operational capability
• insufficient capital for infrastructure-intensive scale-up.
this results in a "scale-up bottleneck", leading to stalled commercialisation, relocation of companies overseas and loss of uk-funded ip and economic value. the engineering biology infrastructure programme ebip addresses this major uk
challenge in scaling engineering biology innovations from research to commercial deployment. a significant part of the programme is the scale-up infrastructure fund £132m, which will establish new and enhance existing scale-up facilities to meet the needs of uk innovators.
Contract start date: 23 October 2026
tender_issue_date : 02/10/2026.Engineering Biology Infrastructure Programme.
