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Published 15 May 2025, 10:47 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Site Characterisation Delivery Partner (SCDP)

Official notice

Authority: Nuclear Waste Services Limited (Public body)

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Architecture & Engineering (71)Services related to the oil and gas industry (76) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£1,365,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 30 Jun 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 10 yrsends 30 Oct 2038 · up to 31 Oct 2053 with extensions · starts 31 Oct 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Site Characterisation Delivery Partner (SCDP) supports NWS in its design and delivery management of the Deep Investigation Boreholes, including supporting NWS in procurement and management of contracted services required to deliver the drilling of the boreholes.

CPV: Drilling services · Environmental engineering consultancy services · Geological, geophysical and other scientific prospecting services · Geotechnical engineering services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 10 yrs
Contract period: 31 Oct 2028 – 30 Oct 2038 (10 yrs) · up to 31 Oct 2053 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published
71313000 Environmental engineering consultancy services71332000 Geotechnical engineering services71351000 Geological, geophysical and other scientific prospecting services76300000 Drilling services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
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
15 May 2025, 10:47 BST
Last source update
24 Feb 2026, 10:43 GMT
Authority reference
C23206
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-016372
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Drilling servicesEnvironmental engineering consultancy servicesGeological, geophysical and other scientific prospecting servicesGeotechnical engineering services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051405 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

15 May 2025 → 31 Oct 2028 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    15 May 2025, 10:47 BST
  2. Latest notice published244 days ago
    24 Feb 2026, 10:43 GMT
  3. Tender notice expected118 days ago
    30 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Market engagement118 days ago
    30 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST

    Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) has conducted a number of pre-market engagements with the market on this intended procurement prior to the Procurement Act 2023 coming into effect in February 2025. The details of these engagements and the output of them have been captured in the document referenced SCDP PA23 Pre-Market Engagement Summary GDF-NWS-SCDP-AXX-CC-CS-000032 Which has been uploaded to the webpage detailed below,

    NWS plans to continue its engagement with the market via its dedicated Site Characterisation Delivery Partner webpage on the website which can be accessed via this link Site Characterisation Delivery Partner - Nuclear Waste Services or typing www.nuclearwasteservices.uk/2025/09/site-charact… ↗ into your web browser.

    On the above webpage NWS shall upload draft documentation relating to the procurement as they become available

    The intent is to allow the market to review the documentation, provide feedback and comments and where required request direct engagement with NWS either via Teams calls or face to face meetings.

    As a result of engagement with the market, NWS may decide to publish on the above webpage new or amended versions of previously published documents prior to the Tender Notice being issued.

  5. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  6. Contract starts
    31 Oct 2028

Notice history

4 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 15 May 2025
  1. Pipeline notice published
    15 May 2025, 10:47 BST
    UK1
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    2 Sept 2025, 16:08 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Feb 2026, 13:10 GMT
    UK2
  4. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Feb 2026, 10:43 GMT
    UK2
Published amendments (2)

Market Engagement Deadline date extension from 31/03/26 to 30/06/26.

24/02/2026 - Updated Link for Site Characterisation Webpage

Routine re-releases (4)
  • 2025-05: 1 release · 15 May 2025

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

Nuclear Waste Services Limited

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PNWB-5846-DYCH Pelham House, Pelham Drive,, Calderbridge, Seascale, North West, CA20 1DBContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (4)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure