Official UK procurement notice
UKRI-4882 Fuel uplift for SDA March 2025
Authority: UK Research and Innovation (Central government)
Sectors: Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy (09) Delivery: UK
Awarded value£333,066published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 20 May 2025no call for competition
Awarded to Ministry of Defence
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a Contract Award for fuel for the RRS Sir David Attenborough (SDA).
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA, CPTPP)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 May 2025, 13:33 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Jun 2025, 16:05 BST
- Authority reference
UKRI-4882- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-031641- Latest notice
- Contract termination notice (UK11)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051ab1Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Commodity; Urgency
- Published justification
Schedule 5, Paragraph 13 and Paragraph 14 of the Procurement Act 2023, the public contract concerns goods strictly necessary for reasons of extreme and unavoidable urgency, applies to the award of this contract.
Notice history
5 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 May 2025- Transparency notice published21 May 2025, 13:33 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published27 May 2025, 10:05 BSTUK6
- Contract signature expected8 Jun 2025, 00:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract details notice published11 Jun 2025, 14:05 BSTUK7
- Contract termination notice published11 Jun 2025, 16:05 BSTUK11
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-05: 1 release · 21 May 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastAwards 1
Awarded value £333,0661 award exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 7 Jun 2025
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Defence9 Jun 2025 – 10 Jun 2025 | £333,066 | 20 May 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · Ministry of Defence
- Signed
- 7 Jun 2025
- Value
- £333,066
- Period
- 9 Jun 2025 – 10 Jun 2025
- Status
- terminated
- Final value
- £333,066
- Termination
- contractCompleted
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Ministry of DefenceAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract termination notice Contract termination notice on Find a Tender
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender