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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) regulatory capability project.

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£5.0m
Awarded10 May 2018
Published19 May 2018
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£5.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£5.4m

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has requested that the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) provide support to BEIS' Advanced Nuclear Reactor innovation strategy.

The ONR (in conjunction with the EA) will support a range of tasks that BEIS will be undertaking as part of a research and development programme for Advanced Modular Reactors (AMR) announced by BEIS on 07/12/2017.

As part of this project the BEIS has approached the ONR to support BEIS' AMR project including policy development, competition design and delivery in accordance with an agreed technical specification.

In order to develop the necessary safety and security protections to regulate AMRs the ONR will need to develop the necessary capacity to do this.

The new regulatory framework developed by ONR must be fit-for-purpose for AMRs and not just a modification of existing regulation.

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Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has requested that the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) provide support to BEIS' Advanced Nuclear Reactor innovation strategy.

02

The ONR (in conjunction with the EA)

The ONR (in conjunction with the EA) will support a range of tasks that BEIS will be undertaking as part of a research and development programme for Advanced Modular Reactors (AMR) announced by BEIS on 07/12/2017.

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As part of this project the BEIS

As part of this project the BEIS has approached the ONR to support BEIS' AMR project including policy development, competition design and delivery in accordance with an agreed technical specification.

04

In order to develop the necessary safety

In order to develop the necessary safety and security protections to regulate AMRs the ONR will need to develop the necessary capacity to do this.

05

The new regulatory framework developed by ONR

The new regulatory framework developed by ONR must be fit-for-purpose for AMRs and not just a modification of existing regulation.

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