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Integrated Intelligent Safe Environment Phase 2

Buyer: UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY LIMITED →

BuyerUNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY LIMITED
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published25 Nov 2025

What is being bought

UKNNL have been asked to support the delivery of this innovative project for the SNM division of Sellafield Ltd. UKNNL requires consultancy and software development support via a contract to develop and demonstrate a solution for an Integrated Intelligent Safe Environment. The works will also need to maintain a requirements specification and include an update to the feasibility study (Issue 1) that was released as part of Phase 1 in March 2025. Upon acceptance of the updated feasibility study, the University partner will then initiate the development of an AI-based system that allows safe, symbiotic interaction between humans and autonomous systems.

Delivery location

UKD

Categories

Research and development services and related consultancy services 73000000Research and development services and related consultancy services 73000000

Lot details

Lot 1

The Deliverables of the contract are as follows: Year 1: 1. An end of year report detailing progress of the development of the AI system, and the review of the application of the Unity Gaming Engine. 2. A demonstration of the generated AI system using a simple store mock-up. 3. A report detailing the high-level design of the IISE Software. 4. Update the requirements specification for review and agreement by Sellafield Ltd and UKNNL. 5. An updated version of the "Feasibility Review document" on the approaches, their validity, scope, key assumptions, and consistency with established practise. 6. Update scope of programme for future phases of work. The above list may be subject to change if UKNNL has specific requirements or time restraints. Year 2 and 3: 1. Deliverables will align with Module design, write and test activities. Timescales • Year 1 deliverables will be delivered on or before 31st March 2026. • Year 2 and Year 3 deliverables will be required before 31st March 2028.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Research and development services and related consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 73. The category anchor is Research and development services and related consultancy services (73000000); 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 731,2393 median · 30.6 average (287 of 1,239 with a bid count)2.8 average (317 of 1,239 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKD422 median · 3 average (9 of 42 with a bid count)1 average (11 of 42 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 rationaleDirect Award (call off) under NNLC321 UKNNL University Supply Chain Framework - Lot 6 Innovation, Future Insights & New Technology Universities.
Rationale classificationsNo tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to restricted procedure
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
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.

Awards

Contracts

077021-2025-1

Statusactive
Value£300,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05e8b1
Latest release ID077021-2025
Latest release timestampTue Nov 25 2025 16:57:14 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodlimited
Procurement method detailsAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
25 Nov 2025award, contract077021-2025

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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