Contract

Slitter Equipment for UKBIC Flexible Industrialisation Line (FIL)

  • UK Battery Industrialisation Centre

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-000715

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-03928a

Published 9 January 2024, 4:56pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

UK Battery Industrialisation Centre

Rowley Road, Baginton

Coventry

CV8 3AL

Contact

Miss Procurement Tenders

Email

ProcurementTenders@ukbic.co.uk

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UK - United Kingdom

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.ukbic.co.uk/

Buyer's address

https://www.ukbic.co.uk/

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Other type

Compliance with grant funding agreement

one.5) Main activity

Other activity

Research and Development


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Slitter Equipment for UKBIC Flexible Industrialisation Line (FIL)

Reference number

DN672720

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 42000000 - Industrial machinery

two.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

two.1.4) Short description

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.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: 1,396,150 EUR

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UK - United Kingdom

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

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.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion - Name: Technical / Weighting: 70

Price - Weighting: 30

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2023/S 000-015781


Section five. Award of contract

Contract No

2023/S 000-015781

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

18 December 2023

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 6

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Robust Habicht & Heuser GmbH & Co. KG

Remscheid

42899

Country

Germany

NUTS code
  • DE - Germany
The contractor is an SME

Yes

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot: 1,396,150 EUR


Section six. Complementary information

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Royal Courts of Justice

London

Country

United Kingdom