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Published 2 Sept 2024, 14:52 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Civils Support DPS - Welsh Region - Pre-Qualification

Authority: Nuclear Restoration Services Limited (Public body)

Dynamic marketWorksRestricted procedure
Dynamic market estimate£9,853,000market-wide estimate, not attributable revenue
Admission open until 31 Aug 202812:00 BST · period end, not a bid countdown
Market period 4 yrsends 31 Aug 2028 · starts 2 Sept 2024

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Provision of civil construction works to faciliate nuclear decommissioning

CPV: Construction work · Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work

How this dynamic market works

From the published notice
Type
Dynamic market
Market period
4 yrs from 2 Sept 2024

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Provision of civil construction works to facilitate nuclear decommissioning 4 yrsPublished value£9,853,000
Contract period: 2 Sept 2024 – 31 Aug 2028 (4 yrs)
Delivery: Wales · Trawsfynydd and Wylfa (including Maentwrog)
Second stage: up to 10 candidates invited to tenderVariant bids: not allowed

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability

    Candidates will be assessed on their response to the Selection Criteria in their request to participate for a place on the Civil Support DPS.

What this means for your bid
  • “Civils Support DPS - Welsh Region - Pre-Qualification” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Nuclear Restoration Services Limited buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up

Nuclear Restoration Services Limited’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Construction work (CPV 45) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerNuclear Restoration Services Limited · all categories
The marketConstruction work (CPV 45) · Wales (Cymru)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 7 known-size awards · market: division 45 · Wales (Cymru), n=81
14%60%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means registered in Wales (Cymru).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 8 known-location awards · market: division 45 · Wales (Cymru), n=106
38%18%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Wales (Cymru).

How long to a decision?
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 9 decided notices · market: division 45 · Wales (Cymru), n=30
83 days82 days

Half of these awards were announced within 83 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 6 of 12 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 45 · Wales (Cymru), n=24
50%4%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer2 lots with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
The market192 lots with bid counts · division 45 · Wales (Cymru)
1% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid1%
Market: 2 of 192 lots with published bid counts.
2–35%
Market: 10 of 192 lots with published bid counts.
4–627%
Market: 51 of 192 lots with published bid counts.
7+67%
Market: 129 of 192 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.

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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1Provision of civil construction works to facilitate nuclear decommissioning48 monthsPublished estimate£9.9m
Expected competition
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How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

6expected bids2% single-bid risk
forecast from 119 past contests
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid2%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 2%. This is a forecast.
2–314%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 14%. This is a forecast.
4–631%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 31%. This is a forecast.
7+53%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 53%. This is a forecast.
Commercial price forecast
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Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
KAEFER LIMITEDWorked for this buyerDecommissioning & Asbestos Removal (DAR) frameworknotice published Mar 2026Conventional Deplanting, Asbestos Removal and Demolition—Similar wording and category
Costain LimitedWorked for this buyerDecommissioning & Asbestos Removal (DAR) frameworknotice published Mar 2026Conventional Deplanting, Asbestos Removal and Demolition—Similar wording and category
Nuvia LimitedWorked for this buyerDecommissioning & Asbestos Removal (DAR) frameworknotice published Mar 2026Conventional Deplanting, Asbestos Removal and Demolition—Similar wording and category
Celadon AllianceWorked for this buyerDecommissioning & Asbestos Removal (DAR) frameworknotice published Mar 2026Conventional Deplanting, Asbestos Removal and Demolition—Similar wording and category
KELTBRAY LIMITEDWorked for this buyerDecommissioning & Asbestos Removal (DAR) frameworknotice published Mar 2026Conventional Deplanting, Asbestos Removal and Demolition—Similar wording and category

Who could compete for this lot?
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Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Restricted route (Stage 2 ITT / Shortlist): Bidding is restricted to invited candidates who qualified at Stage 1. Uninvited suppliers cannot participate in this round.
SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
1 win in Wales (Cymru)8 panel places
£213m12 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago3 live · £101m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

8% above n=2
2 panel places
£31m6 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago2 live · £28m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

10% below n=1
8 panel places
£13m20 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago16 live · £7.6m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

at estimate n=2
2 wins in Wales (Cymru)7 panel places
£16m7 awards in 36m · last 2 months agoNone on file18% below n=2
1 win in Wales (Cymru)
£731k2 awards in 36m · last 5 months agoNone on fileno comparable pairs
About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Restricted procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Open admission
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Dynamic market
Who may use this agreement
Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
2 Sept 2024, 14:52 BST
Last source update
11 Nov 2024, 14:16 GMT
Authority reference
C20831
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-036431
Classification (CPV)
Construction workWorks for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
Delivery area
Wales (UKL)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04974a Find a Tender
Contract terms
Performance terms

As per Key Performance Indicator schedule

Review and risk notes
Review procedure

Any appeals should be promptly brought to the attention of the contact specified in Section I above, and will be dealt with in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Any appeals must be brought within the timescales specified by the applicable law, including without limitation, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Apply via Atamis (Health Family)
Submission portal named on this notice: Atamis (Health Family) · Who buys & how to bid on Atamis
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · one account PER buying organisation portal · password resets come "from Salesforce.com" (check spam)
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Admission period ends
31 Aug 2028, 12:00 BST
Clarification deadline
—
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

2 Sept 2024 → 31 Aug 2028 · 5 dates
  1. Contract starts
    2 Sept 2024, 00:00 BST
  2. Invitations to tender expected
    1 Oct 2024, 00:00 BST
  3. Notice published
    11 Nov 2024, 14:16 GMT
  4. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  5. Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown
    31 Aug 2028, 12:00 BST
  6. Bids must remain valid until
    31 Aug 2028, 23:59 BST

Notice history

2 releases on Find a Tender
Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
WhenWhatBeforeAfterShift
—ClassificationII.2.2——

1 amendment published without a description.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Nuclear Restoration Services Limited

Contracting authorityPublic bodyBody governed by public lawNuclear Decommissioning 02264251 Hinton House, Birchwood Park Avenue, Risley, Warrington, UK, WA3 6GRContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Royal Courts Of JusticeMediation bodyReview body LondonContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria