# Glovebox Assembly Project

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority](/buyers/united-kingdom-atomic-energy-authority/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Aquila Nuclear Engineering Ltd, trading as Cyclife Aquila Nuclea
- Award value: £75,600
- Tender value: £76,000
- Award date: 1 August 2023
- Published: 9 August 2023
- Contract start: 7 August 2023
- Contract end: 2 October 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 23979033-e1d2-492f-a699-593c7418b5b6-670643
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6af5cb91-7c28-46e2-ab7b-ab995813b21b

## Description

Robots and Artificial Intelligence Collaboration \(RAICo\) is a new programme managed by UKAEA on behalf of a collaboration, including the National Decommissioning Authority \(NDA\), Sellafield and the University of Manchester\. This programme includes a number of research themes seeking to understand how robotics and AI can support the future of nuclear decommissioning\. The aim of this procurement is to appoint a supplier to assemble the parts to build a prototype glovebox is to de-risk robotic operations within the glovebox working with the Materials Research Facility based at UKAEA\. UKAEA is seeking a to award a contract to a suitably experienced Supplier able to integrate the specified components provided in this specification into a glovebox in accordance with the design set out in the technical drawings\. The work needs to be completed in a compressed timeframe of not more than 8 weeks from the date the final technical drawings are made available and will include all phases of the build plus two stages of testing plus final sign off in accordance with the tender technical specification\. The document pack provided with this opportunity provides full details\. Interested organisations may request further details via the information request form included in the pack\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/23979033-e1d2-492f-a699-593c7418b5b6-670643)