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Contract awards

• Moveable Shielding Concept Design Study

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 25 Feb, 20274 monthsValue £70.00kSource Find a Tender

  UKFE has appointed a supplier to provide a Concept Design Study for a Moveable Shielding requirement, as part of the STEP Prototype Power Plant. UKFE is leading the delivery of the STEP programme to design and build the UK’s first prototype fusion energy plant at West Burton, Nottinghamshire. UKFE ran a below threshold

  Awarded to Ove Arup & Partners Ltd

• Palladium Silver Membranes Tensile and Fatigue Testing

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 16 Sept, 202710 monthsValue £143.50kSource Find a Tender

  he scope of this procurement is to appoint a suitably qualified supplier to undertake a programme of mechanical testing on palladium-silver membrane assemblies to generate design data that supports their application in hydrogen purification systems for the STEP fuel cycle. The supplier shall provide the specialist faci

  Awarded to Darvick Ltd

• Corrosion Testing Framework for STEP

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 2 Nov, 202824 monthsSource Find a Tender

  The purpose of this procurement is to establish a framework agreement with a number of pre-qualified, specialist corrosion testing providers to deliver corrosion testing services for the UKFE STEP programme over the next two years. The framework will enable efficient and compliant call-off contracts for testing of high

  Awarded to Lucideon Group Limited, Studsvik Nuclear AB, The University of Manchester, Amentum Clean Energy Limited, University of Birmingham, Oxford Sigma Limited, Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd

• Fuel Cycle Technical Specification Development

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 5 Apr, 20275 monthsValue £130.00kSource Find a Tender

  The STEP programme aims to deliver a UK prototype fusion energy power plant in the 2040s and establish a credible pathway to the commercial deployment of fusion energy. United Kingdom Fusion Energy Ltd (UKFE Ltd) seeks to maximise the national and regional economic and industrial benefit of the STEP programme, in line

  Awarded to Fusion Fuel Cycles

• Laser Induced Desorption System for Measuring First Wall Retention in STEP

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £73.72kSource Find a Tender

  UK Fusion Energy Ltd (UKFE) is seeking to appoint a supplier to undertake the concept design of a system capable of in-situ quantification of tritium retention within plasma-facing (first wall) materials for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme. STEP is the UK's flagship fusion energy programme,

  Awarded to IDOM Consulting, Engineering, Architecture S.A.U.

• Design for Longevity- Electrolyser Prototype Design

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £120.00kSource Find a Tender

  The STEP Fuel Cycle is the subsystem responsible for recovering, purifying and supplying tritium to the STEP fusion reactor. Tritium is present in a variety of forms, phases and compositions, including tritiated water. Vapour-phase electrolysis techniques such as solid-oxide electrolysis have been identified as a suita

  Awarded to AqSorption Limited

• MTC membership

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 4 Jun, 20277 monthsValue £200.00kSource Find a Tender

  MTC Industrial membership program is designed the Members designed from manufacturers, technology providers, SMEs, and large organisations together to collaborate on innovation, research, and industrial challenges. Membership supports MTC's Core Research Programme and gives organisations a voice in shaping future manuf

  Awarded to The Manufacturing Technology Centre Ltd

• Procurement of Testing Campaign Using a Packed Bed Flow Reactor – PP-UKIFS - 458

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £99.10kSource Find a Tender

  Procurement of suitable Suppliers that can provide access to a small-scale flow reactor instrument or test rig to perform characterisation experiments on solid materials. The test requirement is to perform absorption breakthrough analysis to verify the effectiveness of getter materials at removal of contaminants from a

  Awarded to Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd

• STEP Programme Reporting Development

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £387.00kSource Find a Tender

  To continue to enhance and scale the UKFE & STEP reporting ecosystem, building on already established foundations to generate finalised versions of Tier 1 and 2 governance reports.

  Awarded to ANVIL ANALYTICAL LIMITED

• Detailed Design and Build of a Compound Cryogenic Pump Prototype (CCPP)

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 12 Feb, 202927 monthsValue £1.50mSource Find a Tender

  UKIFS seeks the provision of detailed design and build of a Compound Cryogenic Pump Prototype (CCPP) after the completion of the detailed design documentation based on the existing preliminary design.

  Awarded to RI Research Instruments GmbH

• High Field Testing

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 24 Dec, 202649 daysValue £32.00kSource Find a Tender

  Under lot 3 of the Materials Testing Framework - Magnets Materials HTS Tests. High Field Testing.

  Awarded to Oxford Sigma Ltd

• Mechanical Testing of Titanium Stabilised Austenitic Stainless Steel Grades

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 24 Dec, 202649 daysValue £98.18kSource Find a Tender

  Under lot 4 of the Materials Testing Framework for STEP - VIVS Mechanical Tests. This work is for Mechanical Testing of Titanium Stabilised Austenitic Stainless Steel Grades.

  Awarded to Altrad Babcock Ltd

• Thermophysical Testing of Titanium Stabilised Austenitic Stainless-Steel Grades

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractPublished 6 Aug, 2026Value £42.41kSource Find a Tender

  Under lot 5 of the Materials Testing Framework for STEP - VIVS Thermophysical Tests. Thermophysical Testing of Titanium Stabilised Austenitic Stainless-Steel Grades

  Awarded to NPL Management Ltd

• W2B5 4-point bend: A

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 27 Nov, 202622 daysValue £33.17kSource Find a Tender

  Under lot 4 of the Materials Testing Framework for STEP - VIVS Mechanical Tests. W2B5 4-point bend: A

  Awarded to Amentum Clean Energy Ltd

• Critical Current Density Measurements

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractPublished 6 Aug, 2026Value £42.40kSource Find a Tender

  Under Lot 3 of the Materials Testing Framework for STEP. Measurements of the critical current density.

  Awarded to University of Strathclyde

• Insulating Materials Testing

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 24 Dec, 202649 daysValue £192.09kSource Find a Tender

  Testing of insulating materials under the Materials Testing Framework for STEP.

  Awarded to NPL Management Ltd

• Pd Ag Functional Testing

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £195.00kSource Find a Tender

  The STEP Fuel Cycle (FC) system requires advanced technologies for hydrogen separation and recovery. The aim of this investigation is to demonstrate the manufacturability of palladium silver membrane assemblies. This will be achieved through conducting annealing trials, brazing trails, and diffusion bonding trials. The

  Awarded to Amentum Clean Energy Ltd

• STEP Interim Socio-economic Evaluation

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 18 May, 20276 monthsValue £450.00kSource Find a Tender

  The purpose of this procurement is for UK Fusion Energy (UKFE) to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced supplier to design and deliver an independent interim socio-economic evaluation of the STEP programme. The evaluation shall comprise a Baseline Evaluation, a Process Evaluation and an Interim Impact Evaluation

  Awarded to PA Consulting Services Limited

• STEP UKFE Leadership Training

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractPublished 17 Jul, 2026Value £35.00kSource Find a Tender

  Development and delivery of the UKFE STEP Leadership Programme, designed to build leadership capability and support the professional development of selected participants. The programme will include: An initial online welcome webinar to introduce the programme objectives, structure, and expectations, and to engage part

  Awarded to The University of Manchester

• STEP Transition Support

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 12 Jan, 20272 monthsValue £492.90kSource Find a Tender

  UKFE requires short-term embedded support for its People Team during a critical period of programme mobilisation, partner onboarding and organisational growth. The requirement is specifically to implement and embed programme-specific integration and organisational capability products that have already been developed, e

  Awarded to Oaklin Limited