Logistics Service Provider · UK public procurement notice

AWE is seeking to procure a Logistics Service Provider This notice is for market engagement only and is not a call for competition.

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The nature of this PMEN is such that AWE intends to operate restrictions within the relevant procurement regulations in order to protect essential national security interests. If an economic operator has connections with any hostile entity or foreign states which are deemed by AWE to pose a risk to the UK's national security interests or is otherwise considered not to possess the reliability necessary to exclude risks to the security of the United Kingdom, AWE reserves its right to exclude them from this exercise.

In issuing this PMEN and engaging with the market, AWE is not committing to conduct any procurement in relation to this Programme. Equally non-participation in this Market Engagement will not be taken into account in any future procurement activities and will not preclude any organisation from submitting a tender in any future competitions.

Note: The nature of this contract is such that the award will be subject to suppliers passing AWE's security requirements as dictated by its site licenses.

AWE is embarking upon delivery of a significant multi decade infrastructure programme to modernise for the future whilst simultaneously maintaining current operations. Site safety will remain paramount and logistics will be a key enabler to enable the necessary concurrent, and safe, activity.

Construction logistics (the movement of material, equipment and people in support of construction activity) at AWE has hitherto been conducted on a project-by-project basis and independent of operational logistics (the logistics activity required to support AWE's Business As Usual requirements). AWE intends to move to a programmatic delivery model, and is therefore seeking to establish a logistics capability that can cope with the cumulative demands in a holistic manner. It intends to exploit the opportunity to "design logistics in", with a new logistics approach to ensure coordination, deconfliction and optimisation in a future logistics operating model.

AWE is publishing this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice to inform and update the market regarding AWE's intention to procure this new logistics capability. This PMEN is to identify and engage with logistics and construction industry experts on complex and unique challenges as part of a comprehensive market engagement exercise. This PMEN signals the commencement of the IPD Logistics team's market engagement programme to support the proposed procurement launch in early 2027. Suppliers who would like to engage with the programme are invited to register interest via the questionnaire referred to in this PMEN.

Interested Parties:

Suppliers who are interested in participating in the IPD Logistics programme Market Engagement are required to complete the Supplier Registration detailed in the link below.

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AWE shall undertake a security assessment against the information suppliers submit in the

Supplier Registration. For the avoidance of doubt, suppliers will not be invited to participate in further market engagement associated with this PMEN if, because of this assessment (or based on other grounds), they do not meet the necessary security requirements.

If suppliers successfully meet AWE's security requirements, a Non-Disclosure Agreement

(NDA) will be sent to the nominated email address provided in their Supplier Registration. The NDA will need to be signed and sent back before further market engagement information is released to the supplier.