Closed tender

Enabling Innovation Framework

Details

Value
£20,000,000
Topic
Engineering services
Published
5 January 2026
Submission
5 February 2026

Tender 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.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published5 January 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date5 February 2026

About the buyer

Sellafield Limited is a central government body and one of four component parts of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Group. The site's decommissioning programme ranks as the largest environmental restoration project in Europe. Major projects run through the Programme and Project Partners framework, a long-term supplier alliance. Decommissioning work is split among supplier alliances under the Decommissioning Delivery Partnership.

No preferred supplier list operates, so any supplier meeting the criteria can tender.

Over the past 5 years, most of Sellafield Limited's contract awards have been in IT services, architectural and engineering services and repair and maintenance.

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