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Awarded contract (published 18 June 2024)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Radiation protection services - 90721600

Location of contract

CA20 1PG

Value of contract

£33,200,000

Procurement reference

CF-0152100D4L000000iAvzUAE

Published date

18 June 2024

Closing date

20 July 2023

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

29 May 2024

Contract end date

29 May 2029

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Service Provider will be required to supply suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP) for Sellafield Ltd to allocate to maintenance and asset care activities on installed radiation protection instrumentation (IRPI) to match site priorities. The equipment being maintained is located in over 100 facilities that are spread across the entire Sellafield site and owned by multiple independent operating units. A limited on-call service (invoked by the site shift manager) must be in place for repair of essential IRPI outside of normal working hours.

The Service Provider will ensure that all the instruments continue to be fit for purpose, appropriately calibrated and operational on demand, and it is expected that the Service Provider will use external best practice to identify latest developments and innovation with regard to this technology for consideration by Sellafield.

Other services that underpin maintenance, that the contractor will be expected to provide, include technical support, asset care, management of spares, documentation and safe use of radioactive sources associated with this scope of supply.

The typical range of equipment that the procured resource will be deployed on is listed below:
• Contamination Monitors;
• Criticality & Evacuation (CID / CIDAS / BES);
• Filter Canister Testers in Laundry;
• Gamma Monitors (Area);
• Gamma Monitors (Interlock);
• Gamma Monitors (Process);
• Hand & Foot Monitors;
• Hand Monitors;
• Installed Personnel Monitors;
• iSolos;
• Particulate in Air Monitors;
• Pressure Systems; and
• SEMPS system.

Award information

Awarded date

29 May 2024

Contract start date

29 May 2024

Contract end date

29 May 2029

Total value of contract

£33,200,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Cavendish Nuclear

Address

20 Radar Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE3 1UF

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Steven Macilwaine

Address

Birchwood Park Avenue
Warrington
WA3 6GR
GB

Email

steven.macilwaine@sellafieldsites.com