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Enabling Innovation Framework
Sellafield Limited · Local or regional public body
In brief
Sellafield Limited was looking for suppliers for architecture and engineering and consultancy work. Bidding has closed and no award has been published yet.
It is a framework worth up to £20,000,000 excluding VAT: the most the buyer expects to spend across all suppliers, not one contract.
The contract runs for 4 years, starting 30 June 2026.
The buyer says it is suitable for small and medium-sized businesses.
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What the notice says
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…Read the 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.
Timeline
- Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 075553-2025
- Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 077976-2025
- Pipeline notice · UK1, notice 085173-2025
- Tender notice · UK4, notice 000126-2026
- Tender notice · UK4, notice 002151-2026
- Tender notice · UK4, notice 002926-2026
About the buyer
Sellafield LimitedLast 12 months
Procurements
243Awards
200Suppliers it has used most for architecture and engineering
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- Briggs Equipment UK Limited1 contract
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From notice 075553-2025 on Find a Tender, first published 20 November 2025, last updated 14 January 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.