Official UK procurement notice
RAICo - Radiation Hot Cell Through Wall Manipulators
Authority: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUKAEA RACE - RAICo are investigating the use of through wall manipulators in hazardous nuclear decommissioning site locations.
The development and ultimate deployment of high technology, high performing handling systems is a key element in addressing numerous use cases that have been aligned with the RAICo programme. In doing so, RAICo will play a vital part in removing operators from high hazard nuclear decommissioning environments, providing a safe remote working environment, hot cells with a remote handling capability being one example of these.
This PIN seeks to determine the current and future market capability in terms of candidate robot manipulators that are, or could be, capable of operating in place of human operators in a hot cell environment.
CPV: Industrial robots
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Robotic through wall manipulators capable of operating in hazardous radiation hot cell…Planned
Robotic through wall manipulators capable of operating in hazardous radiation hot cell environments in place of human operators.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 7 Oct 2022, 14:07 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Feb 2023, 00:09 GMT
- Authority reference
T/PJP174/22- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-004104- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0373ecFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The authority published a prior information notice calling for expressions of interest from suppliers who either had an existing or were developing a product capable of meeting our base performance envelope. We received four responses with the outcomes as follows:
1 - Responded that they could not meet the requirements either now or in the future so were discounted.
2 - Responded that they had a product, but when we requested a meeting to discuss in more detail they confirmed they had no offering and declined our meeting stating this was not something they could supply.
3 - WMH indicated they could meet our requirement.
4 - Another supplier also indicated they could provide a suitable product and we continue to have discussions with them
As it was the authority's intention to purchase more than one manipulator from different suppliers we concluded running a formal tender process was not good use of taxpayers funds and decided on a direct award process to one or both of the two respondents to our PIN, who indicated that they could meet our technical as outlined, this is subject to us assessing the quotes as being VFM..
- Review procedure
VI.4.2)Body responsible for mediation procedures
VI.4.3)Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
The authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers.
This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the authority before a contract is entered into applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request. Additional debriefing and that information have to be provided within a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be sought from the contact named in this notice.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No. 102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
Any such action must be brought promptly.
(generally within 3 months).
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Dec 2022 → 10 Feb 2023 · 2 dates- Next notice expected5 Dec 2022
- Notice published10 Feb 2023, 00:09 GMT
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Feb 2023- Status changed to complete10 Feb 2023, 00:09 GMT
- Procurement method changed10 Feb 2023, 00:09 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wälischmiller Engineering GmbHSupply of a Radiation Hardened Through Wall Manipulator | £454,396 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Supply of a Radiation Hardened Through Wall Manipulator · Wälischmiller Engineering GmbH
- Signed
- 27 Jan 2023
- Value
- £454,396
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- UK Atomic Energy AuthorityMediation bodyReview bodyReview contact point
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Wälischmiller Engineering GmbHAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.