Universe Priority accounts Sellafield Ltd
Nuclear · Decommissioning site operator · Cumbria · ~11,000 employees

Sellafield Ltd

Atos has been the NDA-group IT incumbent since 2012 through the £140m Shared Services Alliance. Sellafield's £107.69m IAMS Lots 4 & 5 successor procurement runs through CCS TS4 with call-for-competition anticipated late May 2026 and contracts targeting April 2027. April 2032, extendable to 2034. The C-suite refreshed across 2024 and ONR moved cyber attention level from 'significantly enhanced' to 'enhanced' on 19 November 2025.

Situation · account brief

The headlines, the numbers, and why this account moves now.

Everything on this tab is a dated observed fact from public record. Hover any claim to see the source. Full source index in the last tab.

Headline figures

TS4 IAMS Lots 4 & 5 envelope Successor to the Atos Shared Services Alliance through 2034. Find a Tender pipeline notice 060974-2025 updated 2 March 2026.
£107.69m
Sellafield Non-Nuclear Infrastructure programme 9-year (+6) arrangement awarded 13 October 2025 to Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain and HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction for site-wide non-nuclear infrastructure works through 2040.
£2.9bn
Atos incumbency at Sellafield Continuous years under the NDA-group SSA signed in 2012. The Stack confirmed on 8 January 2025 that Eviden 'continues to work with Sellafield'.
14 yrs
Applications in scope for Lot 5 Application-management envelope covered by the IAMS successor competition, including SAP and Azure workloads.
~118

Why this account moves now

17 September 2026
CCS TS4 pipeline notice confirms Sellafield's IAMS successor at Lots 4 (£48.23m ex VAT) + Lot 5 (£41.51m ex VAT). Call-for-competition anticipated late May 2026.
19 November 2025
ONR moved Sellafield's cyber attention level from 'significantly enhanced' to 'enhanced' after two-year embedding of governance and management practices. New CISO appointment credited as reinforcing strategic direction.
Source · onr.org.uk
1 November 2024. 25 November 2024
Euan Hutton confirmed permanent CEO after 14 months acting (1 Nov 2024). Chris Train OBE confirmed Chair (1 Jul 2024). Nicola O'Keeffe joined as CFO (25 Nov 2024). Full C-suite refresh across 2024.
8 January 2025
Darktrace £2.6m 2-year renewal signed 12 weeks after the October 2024 ONR fine. Same notice confirms Atos's Eviden 'continues to work with Sellafield' as a long-term technology and security services provider.

Atos position today

Atos has been the NDA-group IT incumbent since 2012 under the £140m Shared Services Alliance covering 18,000 users, 30 locations and 19 service towers across the NDA group. Coverage extends across Sellafield Ltd and the wider NDA family. The Stack confirmed in January 2025 that Eviden 'continues to work with Sellafield' after the Atos group restructure, alongside the Darktrace £2.6m renewal.

What is scheduled next

Sellafield calls competition under Lots 4 & 5 of CCS TS4 (RM6190). Lot 4 covers ICT Hosted Infrastructure Management (£48.23m ex VAT). Lot 5 covers ICT Application Management for ~118 apps including SAP and Azure workloads (£41.51m ex VAT). Competition anticipated late May 2026. Contracts targeting April 2027. April 2032, extendable to April 2034.

Timeline · every dated fact on one axis

Eight events between October 2024 and September 2026.

Past events and scheduled dates on one chronological axis. Every entry sourced. Colour groups the event type.

2 October 2024
Regulatory
ONR fines Sellafield £332,500 for cyber security shortfalls
Westminster Magistrates. District Judge Goldspring: 'medium culpability (high end)'. Period 2019-2023. Three offences on IT security plan, missed OT/IT annual health checks.
1 November 2024
Leadership
Euan Hutton confirmed permanent CEO after 14 months acting
Chris Train OBE confirmed Chair 1 Jul 2024. Nicola O'Keeffe joins as CFO 25 Nov 2024. Full C-suite refresh across 2024.
8 January 2025
Market intel
Darktrace £2.6m 2yr renewal + Eviden continuity confirmed
Contract signed 12 weeks after the October 2024 fine. Includes 10 days professional services/year. Notice also confirms Atos's Eviden remains a long-term technology and security services provider to Sellafield.
13 October 2025
Capex
£2.9bn Non-Nuclear Infrastructure contracts awarded
Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain and HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction. 9-year (+6) arrangement for site-wide non-nuclear infrastructure works through 2040.
30 October 2025
Capex
Retrievals milestone. 70 tonnes removed from MSSS
Magnox Swarf Storage Silo is the most hazardous building on site and remains in ONR 'significantly enhanced' regulatory attention.
31 October 2025
Capex
£4.6bn / 15yr DNWP framework awarded
Amentum, AtkinsRéalis, Westinghouse ES UK, Altrad, Cavendish Nuclear, Shepley Engineers named across four lots for high-hazard risk reduction.
19 November 2025
Regulatory
ONR eases cyber attention level 'significantly enhanced' → 'enhanced'
After two-year embedding of governance and management practices. New CISO appointment credited by ONR as reinforcing strategic direction.
17 Sep 2026 · scheduled late May 2026. Apr 2027. 2034
Scheduled procurement
IAMS Lots 4 & 5 pipeline notice. £107.69m envelope through 2034
Pipeline notice originally 30 Sep 2025, updated 2 Mar 2026. Competition anticipated late May 2026. Contracts targeting April 2027. April 2032, extendable to 2034.
People · named decision-makers and technology leaders

Eight people who shape the IAMS outcome.

Each person carries their role, their sourced prior-role facts, and. where publicly evidenced. the pattern that predicts how they buy. Where no pattern is evidenced, that is stated.

C-suite
Euan Hutton
Chief Executive Officer · permanent from 1 November 2024

Recent public record. Public defence of Sellafield IT posture after 'Nuclear Leaks' allegations (BBC, 18 Dec 2023). Personally invested in the cyber narrative. Named accountable owner of the IAMS outcome.

Source · gov.uk

C-suite
Chris Train OBE
Chair · from 1 July 2024

Named in the record. Confirmed as Chair in the Sellafield Annual Report and Accounts 2024-2025.

Source · Sellafield ARA 2024-2025

C-suite
Nicola O'Keeffe
Chief Financial Officer · from 25 November 2024

Recent public record. First IAMS-scale procurement decision on her watch. No prior-role technology-sourcing pattern in the public record from her published biography.

Source · Sellafield ARA 2024-2025

Technology · CDIO
Graeme Slater
Chief Digital & Information Officer · from 2021

Recent public record. Named on Sellafield's published leadership page. Responsibility for digital services, cyber resilience and data. Named accountable owner for IAMS and SAP.

Prior role. Managing Director, Grays IT Limited. 20+ years IT leadership, transformation and modernisation.

Source · gov.uk

Technology · CISO
David M.
Chief Information Security Officer · from January 2024

Recent public record. ONR (19 Nov 2025) credited the new CISO appointment as 'reinforcing strategic direction'.

Prior roles. Home Office. Head of Cyber Security Operations. Foreign Office. CISO. Successor to Richard Meal (Head of Information Security 10+ years, ex-RAF, stepped down 27 March 2024).

Source · thestack.technology

Executive · COO
Roddy Miller
Chief Operating Officer

Recent public record. Joined March 2022 as Head of Retrievals Value Stream. 20+ years project/programme portfolio and transformation experience. Natural home for OT-safe retrievals-tooling conversations, separate from IAMS.

Source · politicshome.com

Executive · CCO
James Riddick
Chief Commercial Officer

Named in the record. Listed on the Sellafield Ltd published leadership page.

Source · gov.uk

Technology · open role
Head of Security Architecture
Enterprise Security Architecture strategy · advertised January 2025

Recent public record. Advertised as open in January 2025 supporting strategic projects with security architecture requirements. The architecture backbone of the IAMS-era rebuild is still forming.

Source · thestack.technology

Contracts & money · published spend flow

How money moves from programme envelopes to named vendors.

Every published contract we could evidence, sequenced by scale. Framed as reported facts, not commentary.

Workstream Vendor Value / detail Status Source
IAMS successor · Lots 4 & 5 Competition opens late May 2026 £48.23m (Lot 4) + £41.51m (Lot 5) ex VAT · ~118 apps including SAP and Azure · contracts through 2034 Scheduled FTS 060974-2025
IT / cyber long-standing Atos (Eviden) Continuous since 2012 NDA SSA (£140m). Sellafield-specific 2yr extension Oct 2020. WER-7148 SAM project services 2025. Incumbent thestack.technology
PICTS #1 Service Desk & EUS Modification notice Jul 2025 £13m modification issued 11 July 2025 under CCS TS2 RM3804 four-lot award (2021). Live modification FTS
PICTS #9 On-Site Networks Re-competition Q1 2026/27 Listed in Sellafield Q1 2026/27 Procurement Plan. Re-competing Procurement Plan
Cyber threat detection Darktrace £2.6m 2-year renewal signed 8 Jan 2025, 12 weeks after the ONR fine. Includes 10 days professional services / year. Live · Jan 2027 thestack.technology
Non-Nuclear Infrastructure Morgan Sindall Infrastructure · Costain · HOCHTIEF (UK) £2.9bn · 9-year (+6) arrangement for site-wide non-nuclear infrastructure works through 2040 · awarded 13 Oct 2025. Live gov.uk
DNWP framework Amentum · AtkinsRéalis · Westinghouse ES UK · Altrad · Cavendish Nuclear · Shepley Engineers £4.6bn / 15 years · awarded 31 Oct 2025 for high-hazard risk reduction across four lots. Live gov.uk
PPP Lot 1 · Integration KBR 20-year framework · 2019 · £7bn+ · through 2039. Live neccontract.com
PPP Lot 2 · Design & Engineering Jacobs 20-year framework · through 2039. Live neccontract.com
Design & Engineering long-term Wood £770m · 20-year design & engineering partner · 2019 · through 2039. Live BBC
PPP Mechanical & Pipework Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick · Doosan Babcock £112-£237m · March 2022. Live gov.uk
Competitors · who else operates on the estate

Eleven public vendor positions across Sellafield's contract landscape.

Only vendors with a dated, sourced position on the estate. Framed by workstream so overlap with Atos scope is visible.

Atos · Eviden
IT / cyber long-standing
Continuous since 2012 NDA SSA (£140m). Sellafield-specific 2yr extension October 2020. Software Asset Management project services WER-7148 (2025). The Stack (8 Jan 2025) confirms Eviden 'continues to work with Sellafield'.
Darktrace
Cyber threat detection
£2.6m 2-year renewal signed 8 January 2025, 12 weeks after the ONR fine. Includes 10 days professional services per year. Expiry January 2027.
KBR
PPP Lot 1 · Integration
20-year Programme and Project Partners framework signed 2019. £7bn+. Through 2039.
Jacobs
PPP Lot 2 · Design & Engineering
20-year PPP framework partner. Through 2039.
Wood
Design & Engineering long-term
£770m 20-year design and engineering partner (2019). Through 2039.
Morgan Sindall Infrastructure · Costain · HOCHTIEF (UK)
Non-Nuclear Infrastructure
£2.9bn 9-year (+6) arrangement awarded 13 October 2025 for site-wide non-nuclear infrastructure works through 2040.
Amentum · AtkinsRéalis · Westinghouse ES UK · Altrad · Cavendish Nuclear · Shepley Engineers
DNWP framework
£4.6bn / 15-year high-hazard risk-reduction framework awarded 31 October 2025 across four lots.
NG Bailey + Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick
PPP E&I sub-framework
£485-£600m announced February 2022 through the PPP horizon.
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick + Doosan Babcock
PPP Mechanical & Pipework
£112-£237m announced March 2022 through the PPP horizon.
Infor
Support & maintenance
Contract award notice 2025/S 000-000615. Ongoing.
Concur (SAP)
Expenses solution
Contract award notice December 2025. Ongoing.
Government signals · Parliamentary and regulatory footprint

Four dated Westminster and regulatory events that shape the estate.

Each entry is a public forum record with named speakers, quotes where captured, and the source.

20 March 2025
PAC. oral evidence
PAC 'Decommissioning Sellafield' oral session, Q1-116
Sellafield CEO Euan Hutton and NDA / NWS colleagues gave oral evidence. PAC 28th Report 2024-25 was published 4 June 2025 with the 'intolerable risks' finding.
16-20 December 2024
Energy Security & Net Zero Committee
ESNZ Committee session with NDA, Nuclear Waste Services and Sellafield CEOs
Euan Hutton appeared alongside NDA and NWS CEOs to answer the committee's oversight of nuclear decommissioning delivery.
14 October 2024
House of Commons · Adjournment Debate
Nuclear Industry: Cumbria. Sellafield-focused
Constituency MP-led adjournment debate on the nuclear industry in Cumbria.
2 October 2024
Westminster Magistrates Court
Sellafield fined £332,500 · 'medium culpability (high end)'
District Judge Goldspring handed down the sentence for three offences relating to the IT security plan and missed IT/OT annual health checks over 2019-2023. ONR launched thematic interventions clarifying expectations around IT/OT integration.
Sources · full evidence index

Every source cited across this account, in one place.

Each line is the fact it supports followed by the URL. Every claim on this account resolves to one of these.

  1. IAMS pipeline notice · £107.69m through 2034. Find a Tender 060974-2025, originally 30 September 2025, updated 2 March 2026. find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/060974-2025
  2. ONR eases cyber attention level. 19 November 2025. onr.org.uk/news/all-news/2025/11/onr-recognises-cyber-security-improvements-at-sellafield
  3. ONR fine £332,500. 2 October 2024. onr.org.uk/news/all-news/2024/10/sellafield-ltd-fined-332-500-for-cyber-security-shortfalls
  4. Euan Hutton confirmed permanent CEO. 1 November 2024. gov.uk/government/news/euan-hutton-permanently-appointed-as-sellafield-ceo
  5. Chris Train OBE Chair · Nicola O'Keeffe CFO. Sellafield Annual Report and Accounts 2024-2025. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk / Sellafield ARA 2024-2025
  6. Graeme Slater · CDIO. gov.uk people page. gov.uk/government/people/graeme-slater
  7. New CISO · Darktrace renewal · Eviden continuity. The Stack, 8 January 2025. thestack.technology/sellafield-darktrace-licences
  8. £2.9bn Non-Nuclear Infrastructure contracts. 13 October 2025. gov.uk/government/news/sellafield-ltd-awards-29bn-infrastructure-contracts
  9. £4.6bn DNWP framework. 31 October 2025. gov.uk/government/news/sellafield-ltd-awards-high-hazard-risk-reduction-framework-contract
  10. Retrievals milestone · 70 tonnes from MSSS. 30 October 2025. gov.uk/government/news/sellafields-most-complex-clean-up-job-reaches-major-milestone
  11. SIXEP Continuity Plant · 75% complete. 18 August 2026. gov.uk/government/news/latest-crane-lifts-mark-major-progress-on-sixep-continuity-plant
  12. PICTS #1 modification £13m. 11 July 2025. find-tender.service.gov.uk / ocds-h6vhtk-0558f2
  13. Sellafield Q1 2026/27 Procurement Plan. Cross-programme pipeline. Sellafield Q1 2026/27 Procurement Plan
  14. PPP framework · KBR · Jacobs. neccontract.com/projects/sellafield-programme-and-project-partners-ppp-framework-uk
  15. Wood £770m 20-year Design & Engineering. BBC News, 2019. bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-48213428
  16. PAC decommissioning oral evidence. 20 March 2025. committees.parliament.uk/publications/48128/documents/252127/default
  17. Hansard Adjournment Debate · Nuclear Industry: Cumbria. 14 October 2024. hansard.parliament.uk / 14 October 2024
  18. Sellafield Ltd published leadership page. gov.uk/government/organisations/sellafield-ltd