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How to win: Critical Minerals - Demand Aggregation Platform

A services contract from Department for Business & Trade, worth £4,166,666.67. Below: what it involves and how to write a winning bid for it.

Buyer

Department for Business & Trade

Value

£4,166,666.67

About this contract

A new web-based platform to help UK industry consolidate and pool its critical mineral demand across different industries, facilitate industry-led strategic offtake agreements, and help industry and Government to make better use of UK public finance to catalyse private investment.

How to win contracts like this

✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Department for Business & Trade scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
✓At £4,166,666.67, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
✓Start early: deadlines are tight and a strong bid takes iteration.

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