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Published 25 Jul 2024, 08:53 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Expert Support & Alternative Solutions Framework

Official notice

Authority: Nuclear Waste Services Limited (Public body)

Framework agreementServices
Planned pipeline value£14,500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 23 Jan 2025from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Nuclear Waste Services intends to issue a procurement in 2025 to provide access to a new Expert Support & Alternative Solutions Framework for all NWS Customers with a Waste Services Contract. The proposed framework will include: <br/>- On-site support; <br/>- Technical and professional waste services; <br/>- Enabling activities; <br/>- Development and delivery of alternative solutions (including pilots); <br/>- Research & Development; <br/>- Container and Package Quality and Inspection Capability.

CPV: Radioactive waste treatment services · Radioactive-, toxic-, medical- and hazardous waste services · Technical analysis or consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1As the diversion of LLW from LLWR Repository has become business as usual over the…Planned

As the diversion of LLW from LLWR Repository has become business as usual over the past 10 years and decommissioning programmes at customer sites have matured; the types of waste being managed through NWS frameworks has changed. NWS are seeing an increase in the number of challenging / problematic waste streams which require broader waste acceptance criteria and/or a range of specialist waste management advice/support. Customers often also require support higher up in the waste lifecycle / value chain, covering route development / optimisation, characterisation techniques and training of their internal resources. This trend is set to continue as further changes in decommissioning occur over the next decade.<br/> <br/>It is also recognised that many NDA entities have only small numbers of resources with the knowledge and expertise needed to manage their existing and future waste arisings, as well as their historic wastes.<br/> <br/>This ESAS framework will therefore support NWS mission and vision by providing the Client and its Customers with access to an experienced pool of expert resources and fit for purpose responsive solutions, which offer value for money, sustainability and social value.<br/> <br/>Contractors will be required to have knowledge and understanding across the full radioactive waste management lifecycle and the ability to operate and execute work and provide support at any stage of the lifecycle on the Customer’s, Contractor’s, Client’s sites or elsewhere.<br/> <br/>Contractors must have the ability to deliver all aspects of the service. Such ability may include the use of appropriate subcontractors in accordance with the conditions of contract. Additional information: We intend to hold a Supplier Engagement Event via Microsoft Teams on Monday 19th August 2024 from 13:00 to 16:00 to share high-level scope and other details. To register interest in the opportunity and to book your place at the engagement event please contact either:<br/>- Matthew.J.Smalley@nuclearwasteservices.uk<br/>- Gillian.Spence@nuclearwasteservices.uk<br/>A maximum of 2 attendees from each interested company.

Delivery: North West · Calderbridge

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “Expert Support & Alternative Solutions Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
25 Jul 2024, 08:53 BST
Last source update
15 Aug 2024, 15:35 BST
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-025985
Classification (CPV)
Radioactive waste treatment servicesRadioactive-, toxic-, medical- and hazardous waste servicesTechnical analysis or consultancy services
Delivery area
North West (UKD1)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-048464 Find a Tender

Publisher note: The framework will be for use by organisations that either currently hold, or may in future enter into, a Waste Services Contract with NWS. These organisations that either currently hold, or may in future enter into, a Waste Services Contract with NWS, include private sector bodies, plus public sector bodies that fall into one or more of the following categories:<br/>1. Any of the following and their future successors:<br/>(a) Ministerial government departments;<br/>(b) Non-ministerial government departments;<br/>(c) Executive agencies of government;<br/>(d) Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), including advisory NDPBs, executive NDPBs, and tribunal NDPBs;<br/>(e) Assembly Sponsored Public Bodies (ASPBs);<br/>(f) Police forces;<br/>(g) Fire and rescue services;<br/>(h) Ambulance services;<br/>(i) Maritime and coastguard agency services;<br/>(j) NHS bodies;<br/>(k) Educational bodies or establishments including state schools (nursery schools, primary schools, middle or high schools, secondary schools, special schools), academies, colleges, Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), further education colleges and universities;<br/>(l) Hospices;<br/>(m) National Parks;<br/>(n) Housing associations, including registered social landlords;<br/>(o) Third sector and charities;<br/>(p) Citizens advice bodies;<br/>(q) Councils, including county councils, district councils, county borough councils, community councils, London borough councils, unitary councils, metropolitan councils, parish councils;<br/>(r) Public corporations;<br/>(s) Public financial bodies or institutions;<br/>(t) Public pension funds;<br/>(u) Central banks; and<br/>(v) Civil service bodies, including public sector buying organisations.<br/>2. Those listed and maintained by the Government on their website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations or any replacement or updated web-link.<br/>3. Those listed and maintained by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) at https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/datasets/publicsectorclassificationguide or any replacement or updated web-link.<br/>4. Those bodies in England, Wales or Northern Ireland which are within the scope of the definition of "Contracting Authority" in regulation 2(1) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR) and/or Schedule 1 PCR.

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

15 Aug 2024 → 23 Jan 2025 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    15 Aug 2024, 15:35 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    23 Jan 2025

Notice history

2 releases on Find a Tender
Published amendments (1)

We intend to hold a Supplier Engagement Event via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 11th September 2024 from 13:00 to 16:00 to share high-level scope and other details. To register interest in the opportunity and to book your place at the engagement event please contact either:- Matthew.J.Smalley@nuclearwasteservices.uk- Gillian.Spence@nuclearwasteservices.ukA maximum of 2 attendees from each intereste…

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 bodyBody governed by public lawNuclear Decommissioning 05608448 Pelham House, Pelham Drive,, Calderbridge, Seascale, North West, CA20 1DBContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.