Services to support the National Rollout for establishing a waste management route for existing High Activity Sealed Sources (HASS) in the UK
- Buyer
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Value
- £23,000,000
- Closes
- 10 November 2026
- Where
- Cumbria
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is looking for a single specialist company to safely collect, dismantle, transport and process radioactive Caesium-137 sources from irradiator units across the UK, then deliver them to designated storage sites including Sellafield. This is a £23 million contract to manage the entire end-to-end waste disposal process for these high-activity radioactive materials.
What the buyer wants
• Provide complete waste management services for radioactive sealed sources, including planning, site liaison and regulatory approvals • Safely collect, dismantle, transport and store Caesium-137 sources from irradiator units across the UK • Handle packaging, consignment documentation, processing and final delivery of sources to UK designated sites
Likely requirements
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This contract is completely unviable for small businesses. It requires specialized nuclear industry expertise, extensive security clearance, regulatory approvals from the Nuclear Regulator, proven experience handling high-activity radioactive materials, and the financial capacity to mobilize £23 million of work. You must be an established specialist nuclear waste management company to even be considered.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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