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
- Sellafield Limited · Nuclear
- Supplier
- Mirion Technologies (Canberra UK) Limited SME
- Value
- £2,966,916
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Waste, cleaning & environmental · Radioactive-, toxic-, medical- and hazardous waste services (CPV 90520000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 069653-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Oct 2025
- Published30 Oct 2025Published 28 days after the contract date
Description
The contract was awarded to the supplier (Mirion) to maintain an ongoing maintenance service for Mirion's specific radiometric equipment covering the provision of hardware and software components, service and support, specialist maintenance, breakdown visits and return of base items of equipment for repair. <br/><br/>The supplier also retain the intellectual property rights (IPR) including copyright and patents for the RPI systems and items, bespoke hardware and software.
About the supplier
Mirion Technologies (Canberra UK) Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03640077).