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title: "Automated Warm Pellet Press"
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# Automated Warm Pellet Press

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/automated-warm-pellet-press-ocds-h6vhtk-03e125). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY LIMITED: "Automated Warm Pellet Press". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £700,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/national-nuclear-laboratory-limited-gov-pc1435)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £700,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Advisory and consultative engineering services, Engineering design services, Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis, Industrial machinery, Installation services (except software) (+3 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UKD45
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03e125`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/automated-warm-pellet-press-ocds-h6vhtk-03e125#tl-md)

## Description
National Nuclear Laboratory is seeking supplier(s) to supply an Automated Warm Pellet Press which may include bespoke design and manufacture. This notice is to collect information to inform future routes to market for this good.
This exercise is a request for information as part of a pre-tender market consultation and Prior Information Notice (PIN), to inform the market that an opportunity to tender for this contract will be released in due course. Available on the E-tendering portal is the questionnaire and draft specification to all you to inform our future procurement process. NNL reserves the right to withdraw the PIN and procurement process at any time.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 09340000, 51000000, 71241000, 71318000, 71320000, 73100000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Description:** National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) are looking to expand their fuel fabrication capabilities at their Preston Laboratory through the procurement of an automated multi-die pellet press with heating applied to the dies. To support this expansion an Auto...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F019956-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-07-12T12:24:43.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T15:29:45.632Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03e125