Closed
Waste Disposal Services to Permitted Landfill
Nuclear Waste Services Limited · Local or regional public body
In brief
Nuclear Waste Services Limited was looking for suppliers for waste work. Bidding has closed and no award has been published yet.
It is a framework worth up to £14,800,000 excluding VAT: the most the buyer expects to spend across all suppliers, not one contract.
The contract runs for 3 years, starting 28 January 2027.
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What the notice says
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), the Client, through its Waste Services line of business, is procuring an open framework (with no limit on the number of suppliers) for 'Waste Disposal Services to Permitted Landfill' on behalf of its Customers. The open Framework comprises Framework 1 and 2. Framework 1 duration is 3 years. the subsequent Framework 2 will be open to new and incumbent contractors to tender for a place. NWS intends that Framework 2 will be established for an initial period of two years, with NWS having options to extend it by up to three one-year periods (i.e. 2+1+1+1), up to a maximum term of five years in total and be awarded on the date that falls three years after the date…Read the full description
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), the Client, through its Waste Services line of business, is procuring an open framework (with no limit on the number of suppliers) for 'Waste Disposal Services to Permitted Landfill' on behalf of its Customers.
The open Framework comprises Framework 1 and 2. Framework 1 duration is 3 years. the subsequent Framework 2 will be open to new and incumbent contractors to tender for a place.
NWS intends that Framework 2 will be established for an initial period of two years, with NWS having options to extend it by up to three one-year periods (i.e. 2+1+1+1), up to a maximum term of five years in total and
be awarded on the date that falls three years after the date on which the Framework 1 is established.
The proposed framework scope comprises lifecycle management and disposal of non-rad and radioactive wastes below UK LLW threshold at permitted facilities within the UK. Lifecycle management may include on-site 'blue collar' work to support generation via excavation or demolition, sampling and analysis to support characterisation and routing of wastes at both the Customer site, supplier site and via a third party where a subcontractor is being used, packaging and transport of wastes from the Customer site in support of decommissioning operations, sort and segregation of wastes, management of out sorted wastes to alternative treatment and disposal facilities and final disposal of non-hazardous, hazardous and asbestos contaminated wastes at permitted facilities within the UK.
A Customer is defined as an organisation that either currently holds, or may in future enter into, a Waste Services Contract with NWS. Such organisations include private sector bodies plus public sector bodies that fall into one or more of the following categories:
1) Any of the following and their future successors:
(a) ministerial government departments;
(b) non-ministerial government departments;
(c) executive agencies of government;
(d) Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), including advisory NDPBs, executive NDPBs, and tribunal NDPBs;
(e) Assembly Sponsored Public Bodies (ASPBs);
(f) police forces;
(g) fire and rescue services;
(h) ambulance services;
(i) maritime and coastguard agency services;
(j) NHS bodies;
(k) educational bodies or establishments including state schools (nursery schools, primary schools, middle or high schools, secondary schools, special schools), academies, colleges, Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), further education colleges and universities;
(l) hospices;
(m) national parks;
(n) housing associations, including registered social landlords;
(o) third sector and charities;
(p) citizens advice bodies;
(q) Councils, including county councils, district councils, county borough councils, community councils, London borough councils, unitary councils, metropolitan councils, parish councils;
(r) public corporations;
(s) public financial bodies or institutions;
(t) public pension funds;
(u) central banks; and
(v) civil service bodies, including public sector buying organisations.
2) Those listed and maintained by the Government on their website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations or any replacement or updated web-link.
3) Those listed and maintained by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) at https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/datasets/publicsectorclassificationguide or any replacement or updated web-link.
4) Those bodies in England, Wales or Northern Ireland which are within the scope of the definition of ‘Contracting Authority’ in Section 2 of the Procurement Act.
Timeline
- Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 021602-2026
- Planned procurement notice · UK3, notice 037253-2026
- Tender notice · UK4, notice 039920-2026
About the buyer
Nuclear Waste Services LimitedLast 12 months
Procurements
24Awards
11Suppliers it has used most for waste
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- Cyclife UK Ltd2 contracts
- Nuvia2 contracts
- Amentum Clean Energy Limited1 contract
- Atkins Ltd1 contract
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From notice 021602-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 11 March 2026, last updated 30 April 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.