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Drive System Upgrade

ORE CatapultScotland
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What the buyer wrote

The purpose of this direct award is to contract ABB limited to carry out an upgrade to the ACS6000 drive system on the 3MW drive train located within the Nautilus facility in Blyth, the upgrade in inclusive of two key elements: Replacement of the existing control platform with ABB’s latest USU-26 system Hardware replacement to improve spare part availability, removing life cycle issues with the currently aging components

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What the buyer calls it
Drive System Upgrade
How they are buying
Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
Work starts
11 Oct 2026
Work ends
30 Sep 2028
Where
in Scotland

Who the buyer named

The buyer published a contact address on this notice.

procurement@ore.catapult.org.uk