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Provision of Operating, Maintenance and Management Support Services

Gas turbines
Operation of a power plant
Parts of steam turbines
+4 more
North West (UKD11)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Sellafield Limited: "Provision of Operating, Maintenance and Management Support Services". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthoritySellafield LimitedScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Sellafield Limited
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Sellafield Limited. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
1.6Bids / Report
83.3% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 12 active published awards; 12 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthoritySellafield Limited
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published22 Feb 2023, 11:10 GMT
Last source update22 Feb 2023, 11:10 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationGas turbines, Operation of a power plant, Parts of steam turbines, Steam generators, Steam turbines, Steam-generating boilers, Steam-turbine generator and related apparatus
Delivery area
North West (UKD11)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-03a767
What is being bought
Provision of Operating, Maintenance and Management Support Services
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    22 Feb 2023, 11:10 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    22 Feb 2023, 11:10 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    22 Feb 2023, 11:10 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Provision of Operating, Maintenance and Management Support Services
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    22 Feb 2023, 11:10 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 22 Feb 2023, 00:00 GMT · £23,356,377
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
px Limited
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£23,356,377 · signed 22 Feb 2023, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Sellafield Limited

Contracting authority GB-FTS-66487
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  • Sellafield Limited
    buyer

    1002607
    Calder Bridge, Seascale, UKD11, CA20 1PG
    justin.beattie@sellafieldsites.com
    +44 1946772993

  • Sellafield Limited
    reviewBody

    Calder Bridge, Seascale, CA20 1PG

  • px Limited
    supplier

    04373756
    PX House, Westpoint Road, Stockton on Tees, UKD3, TS17 6BF
    +44 1642623000
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThe Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHP) situated at Fellside focusses on the safety critical function of providing steam to Sellafield site. CHP is an ageing fragile facility near the end of its design life. In or around August 2015 Sellafield undertook a review of current and future site steam requirements, concluding that future steam delivery for site operations would be via two Steam Generation Plants (SGP). Work on the construction of the SGP commenced in July 2015 and were due to be operational by 2021. SGP Project suffered delays resulting in the Operational Date for the SGP being revised to March 2023. CHP operations are required by SL until replacement or renewal of these facilities following which CHP will be wound down in preparation for decommissioning and demolition. The strategy from CHP to boiler only operations necessitated an extension of the contractual arrangements with the current CHP ops and maintenance provider until the SGP became operational. <br/><br/>This contract award represents the enactment of the optional one year extension to the contract announced in award notice 2021-482650 published on 31st August 2023. In the original notice Sellafield Ltd stated that as a result of the delays in the SGP a new contract with the existing operations and maintenance provider PX Limited had been entered into to safely ensure continued operations of CHP which, given the age of the facility requires ongoing significant care, repair and maintenance. <br/><br/>This contract includes undertaking key activities for plant upgrades to comply with Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU), and provision of care and maintenance of aged and obsolete equipment. It was intended that PX heavily involved in key transitional activities leading to full operations. It was determined that in the circumstances competition to deliver the services was absent for technical reasons and that, pursuant Regulation 32(2)(b)(II) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Sellafield may award a contract to PX using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice in the Find a Tender Service . In particular, based upon assessment of the market ,Sellafield considered that there was no practical alternative to continuing to engage PX to deliver steam and provide care, repair and maintenance services whilst migrating to a new system. Given, in particular, that PX is the only organisation with detailed understanding of CHP and Sellafield’s specific technical and operational requirements necessary to ensure safe and effective provision of services. Engaging a substitute provider during a transitional period would have carried very significant operational risks for Sellafield. Since awarding this contract Sellafield Ltd has had a further change in it steam strategy and has terminated the SGP Project. Sellafield intends to bring to the market the opportunity to operate and maintain the CHP.