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title: "RAICo - Radiation Hot Cell Through Wall Manipulators"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0373ec"
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buyer: "UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY"
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# RAICo - Radiation Hot Cell Through Wall Manipulators

Buyer: UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0373ec

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## Summary

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority is planning the procurement of robotic through wall manipulators for hazardous radiation hot cell environments. The title of the tender is "RAICo - Radiation Hot Cell Through Wall Manipulators" under the goods category. This initiative aims to explore high technology handling systems for nuclear decommissioning to enhance safety and remote working. The tender is in the planning stage, and the anticipated deadline for future notices is 5th December 2022.

This tender by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority presents an opportunity for suppliers specialising in industrial robots to provide robotic through wall manipulators. The procurement method is a limited award procedure without prior publication, and the current active supplier is Wälischmiller Engineering GmbH from Germany. Businesses with expertise in developing radiation-hardened equipment for hazardous environments would be well-suited to compete for this contract and contribute to nuclear decommissioning safety efforts.

## Notice

UKAEA RACE - RAICo are investigating the use of through wall manipulators in hazardous nuclear decommissioning site locations. The development and ultimate deployment of high technology, high performing handling systems is a key element in addressing numerous use cases that have been aligned with the RAICo programme. In doing so, RAICo will play a vital part in removing operators from high hazard nuclear decommissioning environments, providing a safe remote working environment, hot cells with a remote handling capability being one example of these. This PIN seeks to determine the current and future market capability in terms of candidate robot manipulators that are, or could be, capable of operating in place of human operators in a hot cell environment.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Robotic through wall manipulators capable of operating in hazardous radiation hot cell environments in place of human operators.

### Procurement Information

The authority published a prior information notice calling for expressions of interest from suppliers who either had an existing or were developing a product capable of meeting our base performance envelope. We received four responses with the outcomes as follows: 1 - Responded that they could not meet the requirements either now or in the future so were discounted. 2 - Responded that they had a product, but when we requested a meeting to discuss in more detail they confirmed they had no offering and declined our meeting stating this was not something they could supply. 3 - WMH indicated they could meet our requirement. 4 - Another supplier also indicated they could provide a suitable product and we continue to have discussions with them As it was the authority's intention to purchase more than one manipulator from different suppliers we concluded running a formal tender process was not good use of taxpayers funds and decided on a direct award process to one or both of the two respondents to our PIN, who indicated that they could meet our technical as outlined, this is subject to us assessing the quotes as being VFM..

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004104-2023 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Goods |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Planning, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 10 Feb 2023 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 5 Dec 2022 |
| Award date | 27 Jan 2023 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £454,396 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY |
| Locality | ABINGDON |
| Post town | Oxford |
| Postcode | OX14 3DB |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLJ1 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire |
| ITL 3 | TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC |
| Local authority | South Oxfordshire |
| Electoral ward | Sandford & the Wittenhams |
| Westminster constituency | Didcot and Wantage |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | WÄLISCHMILLER ENGINEERING |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 42 - Industrial machinery

### Codes

- 42997300 - Industrial robots

## Release History

- 10 Feb 2023 at 00:09 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004104-2023
- 7 Oct 2022 at 13:07 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/028259-2022

## Notice URLs

- http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-atomic-energy-authority
- https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/72814
- https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/Documents/Folder/48845
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-atomic-energy-authority

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