Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £250,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Machines and apparatus for testing and measuring (CPV 38540000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 001216-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 Jan 2021
- Published21 Jan 2021Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
Bangor University is part of the BEIS funded Advanced Modular Reactor programme (Phase 2) led by Westinghouse. The reactor type to be considered as part of this project is the Lead-cooled Fast Reactor. The reactor design is focused upon safety and efficiency, with the potential to not only produce electricity but also co-generate (potentially providing cheap and CO2 free hydrogen gas and other valuable products). The main challenges facing the development of the Lead-cooled Fast Reactor relate to material degradation at high temperature and in high velocity flowing Pb. In partnership with Westinghouse and the NNL, we require specialist services in order to design, construct and install a Pb-testing facility here in Bangor University that represents a step change in capability in the UK.
About the supplier
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