Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement for Miscellaneous Beta Gamma Waste Boxes
Authority: Sellafield Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionExpression of Interest (EOI) for the manufacture and supply of Miscellaneous Beta Gamma Waste Boxes (MBGW)
Sellafield Ltd would like to notify the market of an upcoming requirement. This Expression of Interest. (EoI) is to assess the interest and capability of Suppliers relating to the manufacture and supply of Miscellaneous Beta Gamma Waste Boxes. The demand range is estimated between 11 - 33 Boxes per year for 4 years.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION
CPV: Packaging of intermediate level nuclear waste · Steel
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 Radioactive-, toxic-, medical- and hazardous waste services (CPV 9052), and who usually turns up
Sellafield Limited’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Radioactive-, toxic-, medical- and hazardous waste services (CPV 9052) →
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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 62 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.
The market share is a minimum: 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 bid17% / 26%
2–317% / 56%
4–650% / 15%
7+17% / 4%
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 estimate63%
Within ±2%31%
Above estimate6%
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 9052Published estimate£4.5m
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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 27 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid26%
2–356%
4–615%
7+4%
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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
- 20 Jan 2026, 11:40 GMT
- Last source update
- 20 Jan 2026, 11:41 GMT
- Authority reference
C8434- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-004728- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0609b9Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 Jan 2026 → 1 Sept 2028 · 4 dates- Planning notice published277 days ago20 Jan 2026, 11:40 GMT
- Market engagement263 days ago2 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
Responding to the Expression of Interest
To respond to this expression of interest, interested parties should respond in the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) tendering portal Atamis atamis-2464.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
To access Click on View our Live Opportunities and search for C8434.
And also provide answers to the questions below:
- Please provide your name, contact details, and email address.
- Having read and understood the scope of work* can you confirm that you would be able to offer a solution that meets the requirements?
- Are there any elements of the scope of work that give you concern and why? How might these be addressed?
- Can you provide examples of scopes of work you have delivered in the last 3 years of a similar nature?
- Based on the scope of work are there any elements that would prevent you from being interested in this requirement?
*scope of work subject to change at the discretion of Sellafield Ltd.
Note: Security Check (SC) clearance would need to be obtained to be able to perform this scope of work.
Response Timescales
Interested parties should respond to this EoI by 3rd February 2026.
- Tender notice expected115 days ago30 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Contract starts1 Sept 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Jan 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Jan 2026, 11:40 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Jan 2026, 11:41 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Adding prior notice that has been published - Pipeline notice
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender