C24612 - Early Legacy Boxes - Liner and AFP
A Contract Award Notice
by SELLAFIELD LIMITED
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Contract (Supply)
- Duration
- 4 year (est.)
- Value
- £5M
- Sector
- INDUSTRIAL
- Published
- 17 Oct 2025
- Delivery
- To 17 Oct 2029 (est.)
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
Cumbria
2 buyers
- Sellafield Warrington
1 supplier
- Bendalls Engineering Stroke on Trent
Description
This contract is only for suppliers eligible to tender via the Engineering and Technology Solutions Marketplace DPS Category, Lot 4 Manufacturing Solutions Category, sub-category: Manufactured Products.This Procurement is for the following components:• Liner • AFP In support of Right First Time (RFT) Manufacture, the following phases shall be completed with support from SL, following contract award:• M1. Mobilisation• M2. Design Validation & Verification• M3. Tooling & Process Development• M4. Assembly 1 manufacture • M5. Assembly 2-6 manufacture • M6. Assembly 7-27 manufacture • M7. Assembly 28+ manufacture A further DPS tender reference C24615 for the Box and the Lid has been issued on the same date as this procurement. The subsequent contracts awarded will be managed concurrently.
Total Quantity or Scope
Sellafield Ltd (SL) have developed a Legacy 3m3 Box Design for the retrieval, packaging, transport, storage, and disposal of ILW (Intermediate Level Waste) from facilities at Sellafield site. These boxes will be used for interim storage and final disposal of the following wastes:Legacy Pond Skips (inc. Zeolites)Maintenance waste from retrievals process/plantSecondary waste arisings within the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP)Where the term “Box” is used in this Specification it shall imply the same meaning as a “Legacy 3m3 Box Assembly”. The Box Assembly comprises the following components: 1 off Box Body 1 off Box Lid 1 off Bolt Set (28 off bolts per set) 1 off Liner 1 off Anti Flotation Plate (AFP) 1 off Liquor Filter Module (LFM) SL requires 6 off liner & AFP assemblies by August 2026 to preload the BEP facility. Following this, SL needs 27-60 liner & AFP (at a minimum rate of 8 per annum) to be supplied to support BEP (Box Encapsulation Plant) Active Commissioning in 2027.Note: This Procurement is for the following components only:LinerAnti Flotation PlateThere is another DPS tender for Box & Lid which will be managed concurrently to this scope of work. Only ‘mature’ methods of manufacture that have been tried and tested, should be used to manufacture the box components; this should cut down development time and ensure on time delivery.In support of Right First Time (RFT) Manufacture, the following phases shall be completed with support from SL, following contract award:1. Mobilisation2. Design Validation & Verification3. Tooling & Process Development4. Assembly 1 manufacture 5. Assembly 2-6 manufacture 6. Assembly 7-27 manufacture 7. Assembly 28+ manufacture Note: Total quantity to be determined by quoted unit prices.**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**Tenders were evaluated against the award criteria with a view to identifying the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) to our requirements. It was split as follows:-80% Quality20% Price
Award Detail
| 1 | Bendalls Engineering (Stroke on Trent)
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Award Criteria
| Quality | 80.0 |
| Price | 20.0 |
CPV Codes
- 44400000 - Miscellaneous fabricated products and related items
- 90521500 - Packaging of radioactive waste
- 44616200 - Waste drums
- 14622000 - Steel
- 44613400 - Storage containers
- 44619000 - Other containers
- 90521520 - Packaging of intermediate level nuclear waste
- 45255400 - Fabrication work
- 09343000 - Radioactive materials
- 98391000 - Decommissioning services
- 44613800 - Containers for waste material
- 09300000 - Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy
Indicators
- Award on basis of price and quality.
Reference
- FTS 066315-2025