Official UK procurement notice
Low Carbon Gas Provision · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Sellafield Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSellafield would like to understand the potential for supplying low carbon gas to the site to support its targets in 2030 and beyond
CPV: Hydrogen, argon, rare gases, nitrogen and oxygen · Mains gas
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Sellafield Limited buys Gaseous fuels (CPV 0912), and who usually turns up
Sellafield Limited’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Gaseous fuels (CPV 0912) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North West England.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 10 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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.
1 bid11% / 3%
2–328% / 52%
4–644% / 42%
7+17% / 3%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate48%
Within ±2%34%
Above estimate17%
Assess each lot i
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.
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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 #1CPV 0912Published estimate£100m
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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. The bar shows 17 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid6%
2–365%
4–624%
7+6%
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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.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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.
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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.
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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.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Nov 2025, 10:53 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Nov 2025, 10:53 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-076760- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e818Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
25 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2030 · 4 dates- Planning notice published331 days ago25 Nov 2025, 10:53 GMT
- Market engagement306 days ago19 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
Pre-market engagement
To respond to the UK2, interested parties should respond in the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) tendering portal Atamis
To access Click on View our Live Opportunities and search for C28470 atamis-2464.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
And also provide answers to the questions below:
Sellafield would like to understand the potential for supplying low carbon gas to the site to support its targets in 2030 and beyond. The following questions are being asked:
- Please provide your name, contact details, and email address so that we can keep you advised of any changes in the proposed procurement schedule.
- Supply volume – Can the nominal demand be supplied wholly or in part with a low carbon gas?
- Availability - When that may be available?
- Pricing - What is the short- and long-term pricing structure (assume a 10-year requirement)?
- Location - What options exist for local or arm’s length gas production? – i.e. will facilities that supply gas be co-located and Sellafield the only off taker or is production elsewhere?
- Incentives - What support is available to enable transition away from purely natural gas? Either via incentive schemes or by other means
- Continuity of supply - How will the integrity of supply be considered? The Fellside plant runs continuously, and it is expected that this supply is maintained in a similar manner to the current gas supply. If additional inspections or activities are required either as a precursor to accepting gas or as part of additional maintenance, then this should be identified. This also includes any changes through blends.
- Carbon savings – Sellafield would like to understand the carbon savings in TeCO2e expected by switching to this product.
- Are asset modifications necessary? How might the current system need to be modified to accept a low carbon supply. It is not expected that a detailed engineering assessment is required. An indication on applicability or what types of adjustments might be needed e.g. burners, pumps, pipework etc.
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expected30 Nov 2028, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Apr 2030, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published25 Nov 2025, 10:53 GMTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender