Space Technology Solutions

This agreement can be used by all public sector buyers, including those involved in defence and security. It covers goods and services related to space and geospatial technologies. These include satellite communications, geospatial and remote sensing, space domain awareness, space command and control and advisory, consultancy and training.

Updates

01/08/2025: To prepare for this dynamic market we held supplier engagement webinars in June 2025 and customer engagement webinars in July 2025. You can view both of these webinars and their slide decks in the documents section of this page.

Description

Many of the services that are essential to our daily lives are driven by space and satellite enabled technologies such as communication systems, navigation, weather forecasting, power grid monitoring, crop monitoring, financial transactions and national security.

This dynamic market supports both the Space Industrial Plan and the UK Geospatial Strategy.

It provides a list of qualified suppliers who have met the conditions for membership and can compete for future contracts. These contracts may cover civil and defence space, satellite and geospatial goods, works and services. 

Find out more in the products section below. The full specification is available in the documents section of this page. 

This agreement is open to all UK public sector organisations including:

  • central government departments and their agencies
  • non-departmental public bodies
  • devolved administrations
  • NHS
  • local authorities
  • police
  • voluntary sector
  • charities

Buyers can award contracts with reference to this dynamic market by using the competitive flexible procedure. This is governed by section 34 of the Procurement Act 2023. 

The Procurement Act 2023 allows contracting authorities to design their own procurement processes within a new competitive flexible procedure. This means buyers can set their own timelines, stages, and criteria, as long as the process is fair and transparent. This flexibility will streamline the process and support specific needs, such as allowing negotiation or proof-of-concept stages.

The contract terms and conditions are not pre-determined in the dynamic market, and a buyer can adopt one of the government standard contracts, in accordance with PPN013: Using standard contracts or use their own terms of contract. Using standard contracts helps government and all public sector buyers to get the best value for citizens. 

The government commercial function (GCF) and government legal department (GLD) have published 3 standard contracts for use by government departments and other public sector organisations, as part of their commercial activity. The suite of standard contracts is designed to simplify the procurement process, support businesses, and create a level playing field for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). These standard contracts set out a consistent government approach to terms and conditions and doing business with the government.

The initial duration of the dynamic market will be 6 years with an optional 2 year extension.

The dynamic market is divided into categories, called parts. Each part provides specific goods, works and services and is in one of four main groups

  • technology delivery
  • operations and services
  • data
  • advisory, consultancy, training and academia

You can download a detailed specification, including all parts and part descriptions from the documents section.

Benefits

  • compliant with the new Public Procurement Act 2023 designed to create a simpler and more flexible commercial system 
  • using a dynamic market buying approach simplifies the buying process by creating a list of pre-approved suppliers 
  • you can work with a mix of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large suppliers, depending on your needs
  • allows engagement between buyers and suppliers using the competitive flexible procedure to help drive innovation and customised solutions

How to buy

You must run a competitive flexible procedure to buy from this agreement. 

You cannot direct award or award without competition.


Before you run your competitive flexible procedure, find out which suppliers could meet your needs using the dynamic market on the supplier registration service (SRS).

If this is your first time using the SRS you will have to register as a buyer. 

Once you have registered, to identify capable suppliers appointed to the dynamic market you will need to:

  1.  Go to the dynamic markets page on the SRS
  2. Scroll down and select Space Technology Solutions dynamic market
  3. Select the access as a buyer option
  4. Accept the customer access agreement
  5. Select category export and use the parts to create a supplier shortlist
  6. Save and export this supplier shortlist
  7. Create your statement of needs
  8. Use your supplier shortlist to invite suppliers to a competitive flexible procurement using a UK4 Tender Notice
  9. Check supplier responses and issue a UK6 Contract Award Notice to the successful supplier or suppliers
  10. Notify all unsuccessful suppliers
  11. Ask the winning supplier or suppliers to provide any needed evidence
  12. Award your contract

For more information read the buyer guide which is available to download from the documents section.

Documents