Award

Replacement Radioactive Sources-UKHSA Instrument Testing Service (ITS)

  • Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency

UK6: Contract award notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-085929

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05f6ad (view related notices)

Published 23 December 2025, 3:36pm



Scope

Reference

C406046

Description

UKHSA intends to award a three month contract (plus an option to extend by up to six months) to High Technology Sources Limited for the supply of a suite of replacement radioactive sources required for use in its Instrument Testing Service facilities (ITS).

The ITS carries out regulatory performance tests on a variety of radiation monitoring devices, under commercial contracts with the device owners, for which a range of calibrated radioactive contamination and dose-rate sources are necessary.

The existing sources have reached the end of their recommended working lives, their radioactive intensity having reduced due to natural decay, and new sources are required such that the radioactive emissions and dose rates required to provide appropriate regulatory instrument testing are maintained thereby enabling ongoing operational capability and efficiency.


Contract 1. Replacement Radioactive Sources-UKHSA Instrument Testing Service (ITS)

Supplier

Contract value

  • £230,200 excluding VAT
  • £276,240 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Award decision date

16 December 2025

Standstill period

  • End: 7 January 2026
  • 8 working days

Earliest date the contract will be signed

8 January 2026

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 9 January 2026 to 31 March 2026
  • Possible extension to 30 September 2026
  • 8 months, 23 days

Description of possible extension:

Possible extension of up to six months to a maximum contract term of nine months.

Main procurement category

Goods

CPV classifications

  • 09343000 - Radioactive materials

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Procedure

Procedure type

Direct award


Supplier

High Technology Sources Limited

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PLHG-8144-MYZN

24 Old Bond Street

London

W1S 4AW

United Kingdom

Region: UKI32 - Westminster

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Supported employment provider: No

Public service mutual: No

Contract 1. Replacement Radioactive Sources-UKHSA Instrument Testing Service (ITS)


Contracting authority

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PBMQ-7576-DVGW

10 South Colonnade

London

E14 4PU

United Kingdom

Region: UKI42 - Tower Hamlets

Organisation type: Public authority - central government