Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 15 Jul 2025, 16:00 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Technologies for Remote Inspection of Nuclear Soft Waste

Official notice

Authority: UK Atomic Energy Authority (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£1,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Mar 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 1 Apr 2027 · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The scope is for remote technologies to either non-invasively or invasively inspect the soft waste package to identify the physical contents of the package.

CPV: Industrial process control equipment and remote-control equipment · Remote access software development services · Remote-control equipment

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 1 yrSME

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 Jul 2025, 16:00 BST
Last source update
15 Jul 2025, 16:00 BST
Authority reference
T/CAB081/25
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-040139
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Industrial process control equipment and remote-control equipmentRemote access software development servicesRemote-control equipment
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055fc3 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

15 Jul 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    15 Jul 2025, 16:00 BST
  2. Market engagement
    29 Jul 2025, 00:59 BST
  3. Tender notice expected239 days ago
    2 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts210 days ago
    1 Apr 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    15 Jul 2025, 16:00 BST
    UK2

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

UK Atomic Energy Authority

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PLJV-1169-JTDD Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire, South East, OX14 3DBContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure