C24615 - Early Legacy Boxes - Boxes & Lids
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 only:Box Body Box Lid 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. A further DPS tender reference C24612 for the Liner & AFP 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 box & lid assemblies by August 2026 to preload the BEP facility. Following this, SL needs 27-60 box & lid assemblies (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:Box BodyBox Lid There is another DPS tender for the Liner & AFP 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. … 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
- 45255400 - Fabrication work
- 90521500 - Packaging of radioactive waste
- 90521520 - Packaging of intermediate level nuclear waste
- 44613400 - Storage containers
- 09300000 - Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy
- 98391000 - Decommissioning services
- 09343000 - Radioactive materials
- 14622000 - Steel
- 44613800 - Containers for waste material
- 44616200 - Waste drums
- 44619000 - Other containers
Indicators
- Award on basis of price and quality.
Reference
- FTS 066317-2025