Provision of Modular Containment System (Moducon)

NRS intends to make a direct award to Nuvia Limited for its – Modular Containment System (ModuCon) pursuant to r Schedule 5 Para 6 of the Procurement Act 23.

The direct award meets the following conditions:

(a)due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and

(b)there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works.

NRS require a temporary enclosure to provide a contamination controlled area to carry out Post Operational Clean Out activities involving the removal of hazardous materials from storage tubes at Harwell Site. The solution needs to provide a safe, suitably ventilated, radiological area to carry out these operations. It needs the ability to be reconstructed in different locations within the site facility.

To ensure value and alignment with procurement guidelines NRS has conducted a technical options evaluation of all other possible engineering solutions that might be able to meet this need. The result is that NRS is satisfied there are no other suppliers who are able to provide a suitable alternate engineering solution to provide this requirement other than in a modular containment system and Nuvia’s ModuCon product is the only appropriate product currently available on the market.

Nuvia Limited is neither an excluded or excludable supplier.

A Contract Award Notice and Contract Details Notice will follow in accordance with Procurement Act 2023.