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Published 5 Sept 2024, 15:52 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Early Legacy 3m3 Boxes · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Sellafield Limited (Public body)

Goods
Planned pipeline value£4,999,999pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 5 Sept 2024from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This Prior Information Notice (PIN), without call for competition, is to alert the market and all interested Suppliers to a Contract Opportunity which will be conducted through the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) and to seek engagement in relation to the Supply of Early Legacy 3m3 Boxes, which are containers used for nuclear material processing and storage. <br/><br/>Please note: Use of the DPS as a route to market is subject to an uplift of the value threshold from £1M to £5M, which is pending confirmation and will be communicated formally in due course. <br/><br/>Sellafield Ltd is intending to procure the Supply of Early Legacy 3m3 Boxes through the Engineering and Technology Solutions Marketplace Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) (C12362) (Lot 4: Manufactured Solutions Category). The one successful Tenderer will be required to supply and deliver between 20 and 40 Early Legacy 3m3 box assemblies (subject to £5m maximum value threshold). Further details in relation to DPS and how to register have been provided in section 11.2.4.1 Description of the Procurement.  <br/> <br/>Furthermore, Sellafield Ltd will be holding a webinar event in October to provide the supply chain with further details in relation to this Opportunity and to invite suppliers to submit feedback and/or queries. Alongside general information the webinar will focus on the following areas: <br/><br/>Timescales for both pre-manufacture and manufacturing periods <br/><br/>Manufacturability of the product designs <br/><br/>Contract pricing models <br/><br/>Quality arrangements <br/><br/> <br/>Details on how to register your interest and attendance at the webinar can be found in section 11.2.14.1.

CPV: Containers for waste material · Decommissioning services · Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy · Fabrication work · Miscellaneous fabricated products and related items · Other containers · Packaging of intermediate level nuclear waste · Packaging of radioactive waste · Radioactive materials · Steel · Storage containers · Waste drums

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1All interested Suppliers should be aware that a Legacy 3m3 Box Assembly is made up of…Planned

All interested Suppliers should be aware that a Legacy 3m3 Box Assembly is made up of the following products: <br/>

  • Box Body <br/>
  • Box Lid <br/>
  • Bolt Set (28 Bolts) <br/>
  • Liner <br/>
  • Anti-Flotation Plate (AFP) <br/>
  • Liquor Filter Module (LFM) <br/><br/>Prior to manufacture Sellafield Ltd will work with the successful Supplier to complete Design for Manufacture analysis of the drawings, prototype component parts, manufacturing trials and develop and agree appropriate quality assurance and control arrangements. It is also anticipated that Sellafield Ltd's Contract Quality Requirements (CQR) will be utilised with several additional controls included – these will be provided and discussed during the market engagement webinar event and will be detailed within the Invitation to Tender (ITT) documentation. <br/><br/>Please see attached documentation, which is provided for information only purposes at this stage and is currently being updated by Sellafield Ltd. All up to date information will be published via Atamis in November 2024 as part of a formal competition process. <br/> <br/>How to apply to be included in the DPS <br/> <br/>1. Register on Atamis one-nda.force.com/s/Welcome ↗ <br/>2. Locate the opportunity using 'Find Opportunities' - C12362 Engineering and Technology Solutions Marketplace DPS Qualification <br/>3. Click Register Interest and Confirm. <br/>4. The opportunity will be available to view within a few minutes of registering your interest via the ‘My Proposals and Quotes’ area of the portal. <br/>5. Please respond to the qualification questions for each lot you wish to apply for (Lot 4: Manufacturing, subcategory – Manufactured Products for this opportunity) <br/>6. Candidates will only be able to obtain access to award stage work package opportunities for the sub-categories for which they have pre-qualified against. <br/>7. Complete the questions to pre-qualify on Lot 4: Manufacturing; sub category Manufactured Products. <br/>8. Please note: to speed up pre-qualification on DPS ALL parts of each question must be addressed. Failure to do this will affect the timescales and may stop you from being ready to submit when the ITT becomes available. Additional information: The webinar event will be managed via the Atamis e-procurement portal, which can be accessed via the URL (one-nda.force.com/s/Wlcome ↗ (one-nda.force.com/s/Welcome ↗)).<br/><br/>Once you have registered and accessed the portal, if you are interested in attending the webinar, please return your expression of interest via the Atamis messaging functionality under Atamis Reference C21675.<br/><br/>Proposed timeline: <br/><br/>Nov 2024 - Interested parties register on DPS <br/>Sept - Nov 2024 - Market Engagement Period<br/>Nov 2024 - Issue Invitation to Tender (ITT)<br/>Jan/Feb 2025 - Closing Date for ITT <br/>March 2025 - Contract Award<br/>August 2026 - First 6 assemblies must be delivered to Sellafield Ltd Stores<br/>August 2026 - Manufacture remaining volume<br/><br/>Please note these are indicative dates and may change.
Delivery: North West · West Cumbria

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
5 Sept 2024, 15:52 BST
Last source update
5 Sept 2024, 15:52 BST
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-028472
Classification (CPV)
Containers for waste materialDecommissioning servicesElectricity, heating, solar and nuclear energyFabrication workMiscellaneous fabricated products and related itemsOther containersPackaging of intermediate level nuclear wastePackaging of radioactive wasteRadioactive materialsSteel
+2 moreStorage containersWaste drums
Delivery area
North West (UKD11)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-049871 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

5 Sept 2024 → 5 Sept 2024 · 2 dates
  1. Tender notice expected
    5 Sept 2024, 00:00 BST
  2. Notice published
    5 Sept 2024, 15:52 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Sellafield Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic bodyBody governed by public lawNuclear decommissioning Hinton House, Birchwood Park Avenue, Warrington, North West, WA36GRContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.