Office for Nuclear Regulation: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Public corporationCentral governmentNorth West EnglandLiverpool

Official UK PPONPDYX-2871-VYZY

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months6+500% vs prior 12 months (1)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Top-3 supplier share33%of 18 awarded procedures · 21 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

18 awarded tenders, 21 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1none within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£910knet · on 4 of 5 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 7 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 71% (5 notices)
  • Framework 29% (2 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Open 71% (5 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 14% (1 notices)
  • Route not published 14% (1 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

22.5indicative · n=250% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 7 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

35 of 7 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimatemoderate · n=3

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Chartered Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF)211.1%0311 Jun 2024
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER211.1%0331 May 2023
UKHSA211.1%0230 Nov 2023
HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED15.6%1123 Jun 2026
STRENGTHS UNLEASHED LIMITED15.6%1120 May 2026
QECUK Limited15.6%1110 Apr 2026
SHARED SERVICES CONNECTED LIMITED ('SSCL')framework/DPS on 115.6%1131 Jul 2025
Vercida Ltd15.6%1120 Nov 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 33% of 18 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 21 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£910kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 4 of 5 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£68k middle valuemoderate · n=4Middle half £32k–£263k.
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
ONR1141 - Provision of Development, Coaching and Facilitation Services to Senior Leaders in the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)STRENGTHS UNLEASHED LIMITED20 May 20263 yrs · up to 5 yrs£750,000
≈ £250k/yr
Provision of Specialist Nuclear Recruitment ServicesHAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED—10 mo · up to 1.8 yrs£100,000 †
Provision of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Advice and Support to the Office for Nuclear RegulationVercida Ltd—3 yrs · up to 5 yrs£35,000 †
≈ £12k/yr
Provision of ISO 27001:2022 External AuditorQECUK Limited—3 yrs · up to 4 yrs£24,500 †
≈ £8k/yr

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 5 of 26 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 22 of 22 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Provision of Independent Research and Advice in the Area of Nuclear Graphite ee (GTAC) and Research in the Area of Nuclear Graphite Structural Integrity for the Office for Nuclear RegulationResearch and development services and related consultancy servicesAwarded / complete18 Aug 2026£4,800,000
Provision of Development, Coaching and Facilitation Services to Senior Leaders in the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONCoaching servicesAwarded / complete3 Jul 2026£750,000
Provision of Specialist Nuclear Recruitment ServicesAwarded / complete23 Jun 2026—
Provision of a Technical Services Framework for the Office for Nuclear RegulationFramework4 lotsTechnical servicesOpen30 Apr 2026£20,000,000
Provision of ISO 27001:2022 External AuditorCertification servicesAwarded / complete10 Apr 2026£29,000
Provision of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Advice and Support to the Office for Nuclear RegulationRecruitment servicesAwarded / complete20 Nov 2025£35,000
Development of a Nuclear Industry Human Factors Learning PathwayNuclear safety servicesAwarded / complete11 Jun 2024—
Provision of a PhD research project to explore the efficacy of peer checking in the nuclear industryResearch servicesAwarded / complete14 Mar 2024—
Provision of Non-Technical Training and Facilitation Services for the Office for Nuclear RegulationTraining servicesAwarded / complete11 Mar 2024—
The Provision of Leadership Development Programmes for ONRTraining servicesAwarded / complete14 Dec 2023—
The provision of independent technical verification of GE Healthcare Limited (Amersham) delicensing proposals and claimsTechnical support servicesAwarded / complete30 Nov 2023—
The Provision of Regulatory Support in Analysis of Irradiated Graphite Brick Cracking and Weight Loss in AGR Cores to Provide the Basis for Effective, Independent Regulatory ChallengeResearch and development services and related consultancy servicesAwarded / complete26 Jun 2023—
Provision of Nuclear Graphite Research and AdviceResearch servicesAwarded / complete31 May 2023—
Development of a Nuclear Industry Learning Pathway for Human FactorsNuclear safety servicesAwarded / complete25 May 2023—
Provision of Independent Research and Advice on Nuclear GraphiteResearch and development services and related consultancy servicesAwarded / complete25 May 2023—
Provision of Independent Technical Verification of Magnox Delicensing ProposalsTechnical servicesAwarded / complete25 May 2023—
Expert Panel on Natural Hazards7 lotsTechnical support servicesAwarded / complete25 May 2023—
Provision of an Independent Review of ONR's Security Assessment PrinciplesSystem quality assurance assessment and review servicesAwarded / complete23 May 2023—
Provision of Technical Support in the Assessment of Radiation Fields at the Perimeter of Selected Nuclear Licensed SitesTechnical support servicesAwarded / complete31 Mar 2023—
Provision of Learning Management System and Content ProviderE-learning servicesOpen6 Jul 2022£150,000

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Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
  • Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
  • Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£5.8m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 5 award records on 5 procedures (5 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 3 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
  • Contract end dates: 5 of 26 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (3 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-156451GB-FTS-47326GB-FTS-57876

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PDYX-2871-VYZY