Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-07-17
Buyer: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 71241000 | 71242000 | 71300000 | 71310000 | 71311300
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: T/CE059/20 — Pin as a Call for Competition — Cost Drivers for Balance of Plant Costs for a Fusion Power Plant and the STEP Fusion Reactor Building Construction
UKAEA is issuing this PIN as a call for competition to alert the market to a future tender opportunity. Important to note that this PIN is a call for competition and potential providers be aware that no further notices will be published in regard to this tender other than a contract award notice published in Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and on contracts finder. Potential bidders must express an interest in order to be invited to participate in the procurement. The deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00 on 30 July 2020. After this deadline, UKAEA intend to commence a procurement process awarding a single contract from 31 August 2020 for the period ending 31 March 2024. Other than for the scope included in the initial award, with no guarantees of volume or payment in the contract awarded. The contract will be paid on actual activity with no guarantees of volume, the estimated costs associated with this service, based on 3 years and 7 months is circa GBP 700 000.
UKAEA is issuing this PIN as a call for competition to alert the market to a future tender opportunity.
It is important to note that this PIN is a call for competition and as such potential providers will need to be aware that there will be no further notices published in regard to this tender opportunity other than a contract award notice published in Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and on contracts finder. potential bidders must express an interest in order to be invited to participate in the procurement.
The deadline for such expressions of interest is 12:00 on 30 July 2020. Following this deadline, UKAEA intends to commence a procurement process to award a single contract from 31 August 2020 for the period ending 31 March 2024. Other than for the scope included in the initial award it should be noted that there will be no guarantees of volume or payment in the contract awarded. Whilst the contract will be paid on actual activity with no guarantees of volume, the estimated costs associated with this service, based on 3 years and 7 months is circa GBP 700 000.
The authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers.
This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the authority before a contract is entered into applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request. Additional debriefing and that information have to be provided within a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be sought from the contact named in this notice.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No. 102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

Eligibility requirements: Refer to procurement documents for information.