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Nuclear Waste Services Limited

Business & Technical Services Marketplace

Business ServicesCPV 79000000
Value£175.0m
Deadline28 Feb 2029
Published21 Feb 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 21 Feb 2025915 days leftCloses 28 Feb 2029
Who to contact
Olivia Hansen-Fox
olivia.hansen-fox@nuclearwasteservices.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£175.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£189.0m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Nuclear Waste Services Limited has published 6 Business Services notices, about every 3 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around October 2026.

51% of Nuclear Waste Services Limited’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Nuclear Waste Services Ltd (NWS) has created the Business & Technical Services (BATS) Marketplace Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) which is open for use by the following Contracting Authorities: NWS, Nuclear Transport Solutions Ltd, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd, National Nuclear Laboratory Ltd, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Nuclear Restoration Services Ltd, and Sellafield Ltd.<br/><br/>An OJEU contract notice (2019/S 228-559692) was published on 22/11/2019 to open pre-qualification for BATS.<br/>A further notice (2023/S 000-002230) was published on 25/01/2023 to communicate an increase in the estimated total value from £75m to £125m.<br/>A further notice (2023/S 000-034966) was published on 27/11/2023 to communicate a change in the period of validity of the BATS DPS, from an end date of 21/11/2023 to 30/11/2025, and an increase in the estimated total value from £125m to £175m.<br/>This notice has been published to communicate a change in the period of validity of the BATS DPS, from an end date of 30/11/2025 to 28/02/2029.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
Nuclear Waste Services Ltd (NWS) has created the Business & Technical Services (BATS) Marketplace Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) which is open for use by the following Contracting Authorities: NWS, Nuclear Transport Solutions Ltd, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd, National Nuclear Laboratory Ltd, Nuclear Decommissioning…

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidProfessional indemnity insurance
  • Show at bidNamed engagement team with CVs
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-039a5c
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
006565-2025
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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