Official UK procurement notice
PLANC (Permitting, Licences, Authorisations, Notifications & Consent) Assurance
Authority: United Kingdom Fusion Energy Ltd (Public body)
UKFE is running a procurement process to identify a suitably qualified Supplier for the provision of PLANC (Permitting, Licences, Authorisations, Notifications & Consent) Assurance. The appointed Supplier will provide an independent assurance service, principally as a 3rd Line Assurance function, delivering objective challenge and assessment of the effectiveness of arrangements used to identify, manage, integrate and deliver PLANC requirements throughout the programme lifecycle. UK Fusion Energy Ltd (UKFE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) Group, responsible for the STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) programme to deliver the UK’s prototype fusion energy plant. Interested parties are required to register (for free) on, or login to, the UKFE Delta portal to access the tender pack, to raise clarifications, to communicate with UKFE, and to submit their proposal.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUKFE is running a procurement process to identify a suitably qualified Supplier for the provision of PLANC (Permitting, Licences, Authorisations, Notifications & Consent) Assurance. The appointed Supplier will provide an independent assurance service, principally as a 3rd Line Assurance function, delivering objective challenge and assessment of the effectiveness of arrangements used to identify, manage, integrate and deliver PLANC requirements throughout the programme lifecycle.
UK Fusion Energy Ltd (UKFE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) Group, responsible for the STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) programme to deliver the UK’s prototype fusion energy plant.
This is an Open procedure procurement run under the Procurement Act 2023.
Interested parties are required to register (for free) on, or login to, the UKFE Delta portal to access the tender pack, to raise clarifications, to communicate with UKFE, and to submit their proposal.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£1,200,000
- Economic & financial standing
PSQ is required to be populated as per the ITT
- Technical & professional ability
PSQ is required to be populated as per the ITT
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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 morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (9)
- Delivery Model: 20%
- Resourcing: 10%
- Relevant Experience: 10%
- Independent Assurance Approach: 10%
- Knowledge Transfer: 5%
- West Burton place-based contracting: 5%
- Blended rate: 30%
- Social value MAC6.1: 5%
- Social value MAC6.2: 5%
Published award criteria (9)
- Blended rate: Commercial
- Delivery Model: Technical
- Resourcing: Technical
- Relevant Experience: Technical
- Independent Assurance Approach: Technical
- Knowledge Transfer: Technical
- West Burton place-based contracting: Technical
- Social value MAC6.1: Social value
- Social value MAC6.2: Social value
- Economic & financial standing
PSQ is required to be populated as per the ITT
- Technical & professional ability
PSQ is required to be populated as per the ITT
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 25 Sept 2026, 12:37 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Sept 2026, 12:37 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 27 Nov 2026
- Authority reference
UKFE204- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090964- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077a79Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
25 Sept 2026 → 10 Dec 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published45 days ago25 Sept 2026, 12:37 BST
- Clarification questions by24 days ago16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline11 days ago29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Today9 Nov 2026
- Award decision expected byin 18 days27 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 30 days10 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published25 Sept 2026, 12:37 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender