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BuyerUK Atomic Energy Authority
StatusClosed
Deadline20 May 2026
Value£150,000
Published21 Apr 2026

What is being bought

UKAEA is seeking off-site archive services, including collection, indexing, storage, delivery and destruction of documents, for a collection of approximately 7500 boxes.

Delivery location

UKJ14, GB

Categories

Archive services 92512000

Lot details

Lot LOT-0000

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£150,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jul 2026 to 30 Jun 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Commercial Criteria — Provide a completed Commercial Pricing Sheet as set out in Document 3. In so doing, you are also confirming that the prices offered are firm prices and exclusive of VAT. (60%)
Technical Criteria — Please provide information on the standards to which the organisation is certified to, specifically including: • Quality Management Systems ISO9001, • Archiving specific standards such as BS4971 (or equivalent), • Membership of National Archive (TNA) Archive Service Accreditation scheme (ASA)equivalent schemes. (5%)
Technical Criteria — Describe the quality assurance checking process(es) implemented to ensure stored inventory is secure, protected from deterioration/damage and correctly located. Include the frequency which these checks are completed, and any mechanisms to report issues to the customer. (10%)
Technical Criteria — Outline the process by which our current inventory (approximately 7,500 standard archival boxes) would be moved from the existing facility to the suppliers facility. Include information on resources required, mitigation of risks to the stored material, and how the traceability of specific boxes will be maintained during the transfer and in the destination facility. (10%)
Technical Criteria — Additional Services: If available, detail the digitisation (scanning) services. Include: • If the scanning service includes Optical Character Recognition (OCR), i.e. if the output files have searchable digitised text, • The delivery method(s) available for digitised files (e.g. email, cloud storage or software), • If access to the digitised files require the continued provision of any specific software or licence by the UKAEA. • Any quality checks completed to ensure scans are legible (5%)
Social Value Criteria — Describe supplier working practices implemented to promote environmental, economic or sustainability. (10%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
LOT-0000Archive servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 92. The category anchor is Archive services (92512000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 927573 median · 24 average (131 of 757 with a bid count)2.7 average (150 of 757 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKJ142Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)1334.5 median · 4.5 average (4 of 133 with a bid count)1 average (4 of 133 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05ae8c
Latest release ID035874-2026
Latest release timestampTue Apr 21 2026 08:00:53 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/035874-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-05-20T11:00:00+00:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-05-11T16:00:00+00:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=104745&TID100109902&B=
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£150,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
21 Apr 2026tender035874-2026
13 Oct 2025planning064894-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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