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Published 15 Jul 2025, 14:00 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Technologies for the Automation of Nuclear Soft Waste Processing

Official notice

Authority: UK Atomic Energy Authority (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE 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 2 Apr 2027 · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The scope of this notice is for automation and robotic technologies that could undertake or improve the functionality required during the defined waste process

CPV: Transportation of low level nuclear waste

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 1 yrSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 2 Apr 2027 (1 yr)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

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, 14:00 BST
Last source update
17 Jul 2025, 17:18 BST
Authority reference
T/CAB080/25
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-041114
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Transportation of low level nuclear waste
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055f7b Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

15 Jul 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    15 Jul 2025, 14:00 BST
  2. Latest notice published
    17 Jul 2025, 17:18 BST
  3. Market engagement
    29 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST

    The purpose of the market engagement is to understand supplier capability, innovation for Technologies for the Automation of Nuclear Soft Waste Processing. We are undertaking early market engagement to inform a potential future procurement. We invite interested suppliers to complete webinar registration and attend the webinar on 30th July 15:00. The RFI document attached has all the details.

  4. Tender notice expected239 days ago
    2 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract starts210 days ago
    1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 15 Jul 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    15 Jul 2025, 14:00 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    17 Jul 2025, 17:18 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Please note this has been replaced with notice 040170-2025 as link to EU supply was not working.

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 (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure