Official UK procurement notice
Campus for Advanced Nuclear Skills and Innovation
Authority: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEstablishment of a 1-year pilot for development of an advanced nuclear skills and innovation campus. A delivery partner will be procured to:
•Improve coordination and focus advanced nuclear energy innovation and high-level skills development;
•Establish physical collaboration with office and laboratory space on an existing nuclear licensed site;
•Conduct market engagement and commissioning of seed or match investment in pilot technology development and demonstration projects to be performed on the site.
•Enable virtual collaboration with links to facilities, academia and wider skills across the sector
•Enable knowledge transfer and training
•Establish funded training / sponsorship of Masters/ PhD students.
The campus delivery partner will:
•be a vehicle for co-investment to establish campus projects and underpinning advanced nuclear training;
•conduct ongoing engagement with industry and interfacing programmes;
•monitor progress of campus projects and training regimes.
CPV: Education and training services · Experimental development services · Research and development services and related consultancy services · Research and experimental development services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The procurement is for a one-year contract with a single delivery partner or consortiumPlanned
The procurement is for a one-year contract with a single delivery partner or consortium. It will be conducted via an open competitive procedure and will be advertised on Find A Tender (FTS) and Contracts Finder.
The ITT and specification will be developed with market engagement, with a supplier day to be held on Tuesday 2nd March. Additional information: The campus will be a high level skills and innovation “institute” housed within a Public Sector Research Establishment (PSRE) on a nuclear licensed site (of which there are several that could be viable) for developing and demonstrating advanced nuclear technologies that can contribute to Net Zero and society. We are seeking market input to develop the specifications for this pilot project.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 Feb 2021, 18:24 GMT
- Last source update
- 23 Feb 2021, 18:24 GMT
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-003625- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-029591Find a Tender
Publisher note: To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=572853338 GO Reference: GO-2021223-PRO-17834208
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 Feb 2021 → 1 Apr 2021 · 2 dates- Notice published23 Feb 2021, 18:24 GMT
- Tender notice expected1 Apr 2021, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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