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Supply & Installation of Water Cooling System Components for a relocated Vacuum Furnace

No classification published
Location not published
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: UK Atomic Energy Authority: "Supply & Installation of Water Cooling System Components for a relocated Vacuum Furnace". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityUK Atomic Energy AuthorityScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: UK Atomic Energy Authority
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for UK Atomic Energy Authority. 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
7.3Bids / Report
6.3% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationLow Concentration
Henham Strategy Ltd.Top vendor: 20.8% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 79 active published awards; 16 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Henham Strategy Ltd.1 win£180,000
ARCHER TECHNICOAT LIMITED1 win£147,000
ANSYS UK LIMITED1 win£81,500
COMSOL LIMITED1 win£81,500
BATHWICK ELECTRICAL DESIGN LIMITED1 win£81,500
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityUK Atomic Energy Authority
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
Published2 Jun 2026, 12:52 BST
Last source update2 Jun 2026, 12:52 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNot published
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-069277
What is being bought
The UK Atomic Energy Authority has a requirement for the Supply & Installation of Water Cooling System Components for a relocated Vacuum Furnace at its Culham Campus site, Oxfordshire. The requirement must fit with a previously supplied vacuum furnace and operate at the furnace parameters.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    2 Jun 2026, 12:52 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    7 May 2026, 08:57 BST
  3. Status changed to complete
    6 May 2026, 15:00 BST
  4. Official notice release published
    6 May 2026, 15:00 BST
  5. Buyer information updated
    6 May 2026, 15:00 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #LOT-0000
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    2 Jun 2026, 12:52 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 27 May 2026, 01:00 BST · £188,150
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Busch (UK) Ltd trading as Vacuum Furnace Engineering
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Supply & Installation of Water Cooling System Components for a relocated Vacuum Furnace
£188,150 · signed 27 May 2026, 01:00 BST · active
Contract period: 27 May 2026, 01:00 BST — 31 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

UK Atomic Energy Authority

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PLJV-1169-JTDD
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  • UK Atomic Energy Authority
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PLJV-1169-JTDD
    Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire, UKJ14, OX14 3DB, GB
    robert.franklin@ukaea.uk
    +44 1235466915

  • Busch (UK) Ltd trading as Vacuum Furnace Engineering
    supplier

    GB-PPON: PWYW-9582-JTRT
    Hortonwood 30, Telford, UKG21, TF1 7YB, GB
    richard.eales@buschgroup.com
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied

  • Not published

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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleProcurement Act 2023, Schedule 5, Paragraph 5 states a particular supplier having intellectual property rights, or other exclusive rights, only that supplier can supply the goods and there are no reasonable alternative to those goods. The goods in this requirement are required to conform/work with with goods which are protected by Intellectual Property. As such we are unable to obtain or confirm the details to allow a competitive tender exercise to be undertaken.