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
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- Bangor University, Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester
- Value
- £7,410,371 across 6 lots
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Mining & metals · Lithium (CPV 14784000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 030386-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Oct 2023
- Published16 Oct 2023Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
A pre-commercial activity under SBRI. The aim of this competition is to encourage innovation in the development of Lithium in an economic, sustainable, and scalable fusion energy fuel cycle. Your project can focus on one or more of the following: Isotopic Enrichment - Technologies that can enrich the proportion of the minor isotope Lithium-6. - Enrichment will be essential to the fuel sustainability of many fusion power designs and, where it is not essential, can add value by boosting Tritium production. This will enable the commissioning and re-start of other fusion power plants. - Lithium enrichment represents a front-end fuel cycle service that will be demanded by fusion reactor operators around the world. Examples of performance measures that would constitute an improvement over existing Lithium enrichment technologies include: - product quality, for example, maximum enrichment level (percentage), purity and product form (metal or compound) - economics, for example, production rat…
Lots in this award
| Lot | Supplier | Value |
|---|---|---|
| SBRI: UKAEA Fusion industry challenges prototype development | Bangor University | £1.16m |
| SBRI: UKAEA Fusion industry challenges prototype development | Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd | £1.5m |
| SBRI: UKAEA Fusion industry challenges prototype development | University of Bristol | £726k |
| SBRI: UKAEA Fusion industry challenges prototype development | University of Bristol | £1.24m |
| SBRI: UKAEA Fusion industry challenges prototype development | University of Edinburgh | £1.5m |
| SBRI: UKAEA Fusion industry challenges prototype development | University of Manchester | £1.29m |
About the suppliers
Bangor University: every public contract they have won.
Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02562870).
University of Bristol: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company RC000648).
University of Edinburgh: every public contract they have won.
University of Manchester: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company RC000797).