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SAC-27-010 International Engagement Requirement

SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

The Satellite Applications Catapult (the Catapult) is seeking to identify organisations with the capacity, expertise, and relevant international experience to support the development and delivery of its international engagement. The requirement is expected to focus on strengthening market insight, market push and priority country selection, overseas partner development, routes to market for UK companies, and practical implementation planning. The Catapult is particularly interested in hearing from organisations that can provide one or more of the following capabilities: International strategy, trade, and market-entry expertise: Organisations with experience helping technology, innovation, space, defence, or advanced engineering businesses understand overseas markets, identify routes to market, assess commercial demand, and prioritise countries based on evidence of opportunity and accessibility. Space sector or technology commercialisation and development expertise: Organisations with a strong understanding of the space sector, space-enabled applications, innovation ecosystems, regional trade bodies, economic development organisations, and the role these networks can play in supporting business growth. Market intelligence and company segmentation capability: Organisations able to assess different types of UK space businesses, including upstream, downstream, in-orbit services, communications, connectivity, ground segment, and space-enabled application companies, and identify which international markets are most relevant to each type of business. Export, inward investment, and international business support experience: Organisations with experience supporting export development, international partnerships, soft-landing activity, inward investment qualification, business matchmaking, overseas missions, or engagement with public-sector trade and investment mechanisms. International partner identification and relationship brokerage capability: Organisations with established knowledge of overseas partner networks, including trade agencies, economic development bodies, innovation agencies, overseas clusters, accelerators, anchor corporates, public buyers, systems integrators, research organisations, and relevant government or public-sector routes. Competitive risk, retention, and ecosystem analysis expertise: Organisations able to assess where overseas ecosystems may present competitive risks to the UK space sector, including risks linked to business relocation, talent attraction, acquisition, intellectual property movement, investment pull, supply chain dependency, or capability leakage.

Classification

  • CPV72221000 — Business analysis consultancy services
  • CPV72224000 — Project management consultancy services
  • CPV73220000 — Development consultancy services
  • CPV79000000 — Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
  • CPV98910000 — Services specific to international organisations and bodies

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
ocds-h6vhtk-06ba23
Main Procurement Category
services
Above Threshold
No
Status
planning

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Amendments

Entry 1
Description
The engagement period for this preliminary market engagement notice is now closed.
Id
068622-2026

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Has Renewal
Yes
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes
Vcse
Yes

Contract period

Starts
1 Aug 2026, 00:00
Ends
30 Oct 2026, 23:59
Max Extent Date
31 Dec 2026, 23:59

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
72221000
Description
Business analysis consultancy services
Entry 2
Scheme
CPV
Id
72224000
Description
Project management consultancy services
Entry 3
Scheme
CPV
Id
73220000
Description
Development consultancy services
Entry 4
Scheme
CPV
Id
79000000
Description
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
Entry 5
Scheme
CPV
Id
98910000
Description
Services specific to international organisations and bodies

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UK
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Planning and budget

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Description
The Satellite Applications Catapult (the Catapult) is seeking to identify organisations with the capacity, expertise, and relevant international experience to support the development and delivery of its international engagement. The requirement is expected to focus on strengthening market insight, market push and priority country selection, overseas partner development, routes to market for UK companies, and practical implementation planning. The Catapult is particularly interested in hearing from organisations that can provide one or more of the following capabilities: International strategy, trade, and market-entry expertise: Organisations with experience helping technology, innovation, space, defence, or advanced engineering businesses understand overseas markets, identify routes to market, assess commercial demand, and prioritise countries based on evidence of opportunity and accessibility. Space sector or technology commercialisation and development expertise: Organisations with a strong understanding of the space sector, space-enabled applications, innovation ecosystems, regional trade bodies, economic development organisations, and the role these networks can play in supporting business growth. Market intelligence and company segmentation capability: Organisations able to assess different types of UK space businesses, including upstream, downstream, in-orbit services, communications, connectivity, ground segment, and space-enabled application companies, and identify which international markets are most relevant to each type of business. Export, inward investment, and international business support experience: Organisations with experience supporting export development, international partnerships, soft-landing activity, inward investment qualification, business matchmaking, overseas missions, or engagement with public-sector trade and investment mechanisms. International partner identification and relationship brokerage capability: Organisations with established knowledge of overseas partner networks, including trade agencies, economic development bodies, innovation agencies, overseas clusters, accelerators, anchor corporates, public buyers, systems integrators, research organisations, and relevant government or public-sector routes. Competitive risk, retention, and ecosystem analysis expertise: Organisations able to assess where overseas ecosystems may present competitive risks to the UK space sector, including risks linked to business relocation, talent attraction, acquisition, intellectual property movement, investment pull, supply chain dependency, or capability leakage. The Catapult expects that suitable suppliers may include specialist international trade consultancies, space sector advisory firms, economic development and investment promotion specialists, innovation ecosystem organisations, cluster development experts, technology commercialisation advisers, market intelligence providers, or organisations with demonstrable experience supporting high-growth technology businesses into overseas markets. We anticipate that this will be a below threshold requirement and any RFQ/s will be structured to allow organisations to bid for specific areas of the requirement where they can demonstrate relevant expertise, or to bid for an integrated programme where they can deliver the full scope.
Due
20 Jul 2026, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Documents

Entry 1
Id
068622-2026
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Published
21 Jul 2026, 11:27
Format
text/html

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED
Id
GB-COH-07964746

Identifier

Scheme
GB-COH
Id
07964746

Additional Identifiers

Entry 1
Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PBPQ-6352-VJPD

Address

Street Address
Electron Building Fermi Avenue
Locality
Didcot
Postal Code
OX11 0QR
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKJ14

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicUndertaking
Description
Public undertaking

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Didcot · UKJ14 · OX11 0QR · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UK · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

2 published notice versions reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

2 VERSIONS
  1. 058525-2026Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ·
  2. 068622-2026Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ·