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
- Equans EandS Solutions Limited
- Value
- £128,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Electrical equipment & lighting · Steam-turbine generator and related apparatus (CPV 31124000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 085726-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Dec 2025
- Published23 Dec 2025Published 20 days after the contract date
Description
The purpose of Sellafield Ltd. is to create a clean and safe environment for future generations. Sellafield Ltd. commits to safe, secure, sustainable, site stewardship enabled by the management of a smart, agile, and resilient site.<br/><br/>‘Fellside’ comprises the Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHPP) and Fellside Boiler Park (FBP); its purpose is to provide a continuous, safe supply of process and welfare steam to the Sellafield nuclear site. Steam has an associated nuclear safety case (in compliance with Nuclear Site Licence Conditions). Fellside is therefore a critical enabler to the achievement of Sellafield Ltd’s mission and towards the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) strategic outcomes.<br/><br/>Sellafield Ltd has engaged with Equans E&S Solutions Limited as a suitable Operations, Maintenance and Management partner to ensure continued safe operations of the Fellside site while delivering high levels of availability of both process and welfare steam for the Sellafield …
About the supplier
Equans EandS Solutions Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04243192).