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Published 1 Jul 2024, 10:54 BST

Official UK procurement notice

PROVISION OF AUTONOMOUS WASTE SORTING AND SEGREGATION Auto SAS

Official notice

Authority: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (Central government)

ServicesInnovation partnership
Published estimate£9,500,000≈ £2.4m / year
Submissions closed 30 Jul 2024awarded 1 May 2025
Awarded to ARCTEC JV (AtkinsRéalis UK Limited and Createc Ltd.)2 awards
Contract term 4 yrsends 31 Mar 2029 · starts 1 Apr 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

PROVISION OF AUTONOMOUS WASTE SORTING AND SEGREGATION Auto SAS

CPV: Design and execution of research and development · Industrial robots · Project-design services other than for construction work · Specialty design services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Awarded 4 yrsPublished value£9,500,000
Contract period: 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2029 (4 yrs)
Delivery: UK
Second stage: 1–5 candidates invited to tenderVariant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored
Quality: 65%Price: 25%Social value: 10%
Published sub-criteria (5)
  • Technical Approach: 28%
  • Team, Skills and Expertise: 12%
  • Management of Delivery: 25%
  • price: 25%
  • Social value Wellbeing and Inclusion: 10%
Published award criteria (5)
  • Technical Approach: 28
  • Team, Skills and Expertise: 12
  • Management of Delivery: 25
  • Social value Wellbeing and Inclusion: 10
  • Price: 25
Conditions of participation3
  • Suitability

    Please see standard selection questionnaire - up to 5 suppliers with the highest scores will be down selected and continue to ITT stage. <br/><br/>1 supplier will be awarded this contract ultimately.

  • Economic & financial standing

    As per SSQ

  • Technical & professional ability

    As per SSQ

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 25 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2.5 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
Innovation partnership
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
1 Jul 2024, 10:54 BST
Last source update
12 May 2025, 12:25 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-020434
Classification (CPV)
Design and execution of research and developmentIndustrial robotsProject-design services other than for construction workSpecialty design services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0478a8 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
30 Jul 2024
Submission channel
{"written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
240 days from the deadline

Timeline

30 Jul 2024 → 12 May 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    30 Jul 2024
  2. Contract starts
    1 Apr 2025, 00:00 BST
  3. Notice published
    12 May 2025, 12:25 BST

Notice history

1 event · 3 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    12 May 2025, 12:24 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 2
Awarded value £4,997,5001 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once
Bids received 4
Contracts signed 2latest 1 May 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
ARCTEC JV (AtkinsRéalis UK Limited and Createc Ltd.)£4,997,500 †same award published again · counted once—Awarded
ARCTEC JV (AtkinsRéalis UK Limited and Createc Ltd.)£4,997,500 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
4bids · 4 electronic0——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawNuclear Herdus House Westlakes Science and Technology Park Moor Row, Cumbria, UK, CA24 3HUContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.