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
- Curtiss-Wright Wimborne Limited
- Value
- £3,298,617.42
- 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
- 069659-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date6 Oct 2025
- Published30 Oct 2025Published 24 days after the contract date
Description
The contract was awarded to the supplier (Curtiss-Wright) to maintain an ongoing maintenance service for Curtiss-Wright'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
Curtiss-Wright Wimborne Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 14356290).