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Enabling Innovation Framework 5
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £19,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 26 Sep 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
he EIF 5 Scope is primarily around problem definition and framing, studies, developing functional requirements, preparing business cases and interventions for which the categories, outputs and deliverables.
The Sellafield Ltd Corporate Strategy and Strategy Management Framework provide broader organisational context and detail around the purpose and challenges of the value streams (Retrievals, Remediation, Spent Fuel Management, Special Nuclear Materials and Integrated Waste Management) and the business critical enablers.
In summary the scope of the EIF encompasses:
• Support to problem framing: establishing clarity over needs and priorities and providing technical / digital support;
• Help in establishing project purpose, principles, roles and tasks before the Detail is decided
• Problem definition: help in translating service requirements into clear functional / technical / digital require
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 71340000
- 71356000
- 79421000
- 71330000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
9 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 16 May 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 16 May 2025.
Release 022024-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 30 Jul 2025Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 30 July 2025. Stated change: As a result of a technical issue, this notice is a duplicate of the correct "Atamis Notice", please copy/paste this link into your internet browser address bar to access the correct notice and disregard the content of this notice. https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038919-2025
Release 044271-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 26 Sep 2025Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 26 September 2025. Stated change: Further delay involving changes to estimated contract start / contract end and tender publication dates.
Release 059927-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 20 Nov 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 20 November 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 075553-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 28 Nov 2025Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 28 November 2025. Stated change: Engagement deadline has been extended to Friday 5th December 2025 at 12pm. A preliminary market engagement session is scheduled for Thursday 4th December 2025 at 10:00am. During this session, the presentation originally delivered at the Supply Chain Forum in October 2025 will be shared, as included in the accompanying documents available to view at any time. Interested participants are asked to register under Atamis record C28373 and submit a message via the portal to confirm their attendance and provide a contact email for the Microsoft Teams link to be sent to. Please express interest by 9:00am on Thursday 4th December to ensure the link is received with sufficient time. Once interest has been confirmed, the Microsoft Teams link will be issued. Participation is restricted to one representative per company.
Release 077976-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 19 Dec 2025Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 19 December 2025. Stated change: The estimated publication date for the tender has been revised to 5 January 2026, with the anticipated contract commencement date now expected on or before 30 June 2026. The estimated total contract value has been updated from £19,000,000 (excluding VAT) to £20,000,000 (excluding VAT), with the inclusive VAT figure amended accordingly. The description has also been updated to include the full description.
Release 085173-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 5 Jan 2026Tender notice
Tender notice published 5 January 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Deadline in this release: Thu 5 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT.
Release 000126-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 12 Jan 2026Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 12 January 2026. Stated change: Update to Tender Submission address link.
Deadline in this release: Thu 5 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT.
Release 002151-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 14 Jan 2026Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 14 January 2026. Stated change: Description/Scope has been readded as was cut off. Full description: Enabling Innovation Framework 5 The EIF 5 Scope is primarily around problem definition and framing, studies, developing functional requirements, preparing business cases and targeted project and task interventions. In summary the scope of the EIF encompasses: • Support to problem framing: establishing clarity over needs and priorities and providing technical / digital support; • Help in establishing project purpose, principles, roles and tasks before the Detail is decided • Problem definition: help in translating service requirements into clear functional / technical / digital requirements; • Support to studies; • Support for problem solving and recovery of stalled projects through enabling services or focussed technical and digital support / solutions; • Support to establishing correct measures, metrics and targets for success; • Improving understanding of supply chain capability; • Supporting challenge to unnecessarily bespoke solutions, application of unnecessary standards and "specialist" requirements through enabling services or focussed technical / digital solutions; • Support to constructive challenge of ongoing requirements and cost estimates; • Relationship based: allowing the supply chain to offer up new technologies and innovations, which have not been solicited by a Sellafield Ltd client that may bring significant return on investment. Sellafield Ltd intends to appoint 10 suppliers under a single lot. The framework agreements will be based on Sellafield standard terms and conditions.
Deadline in this release: Thu 5 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT.
Release 002926-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
These links follow a fixed rule applied to this notice’s buyer, text and CPV codes. They are not advice on whether to bid.
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-051549
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · planned
- Framework
- Yes, as recorded by the source
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 21:21 BST
- Read at
- Wed 21 Oct 2026, 07:51 BST
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