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
- Nuclear Restoration Services Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Chapelcross Energy Project limited SME
- Value
- £24,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Fuel & energy · Solar energy (CPV 09330000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 033795-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Jun 2025
- Published19 Jun 2025Published the same day
Description
The contracting authority, Nuclear Restoration Services Limited (“NRS”) will be entering into a 40-year lease and power purchase agreement (with an option to terminate the arrangement at 25 years) with a special purpose vehicle named Chapelcross Energy Project Limited (“CEPL”) relating to land at NRS’ site at the former Chapelcross nuclear power station which has been defueled and is being decommissioned (the “Site”). CEPL is wholly owned by Green Energy International Limited (“GEIL”) and intends to develop the Jockstown Fam solar farm which is adjacent to the Site. <br/><br/>In 2019 NRS began exploring options for a solar farm development at the Site. Following various technical and commercial studies which considered grid connection availability, NRS identified that the only commercially and technically feasible option which could guarantee the necessary grid connection was by contracting with CEPL. This is because GEIL currently holds the grid connection, which will be novated acro…
About the supplier
Chapelcross Energy Project limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 15906753).