Is this consortium partner safe to commit to before you sign?
A consortium partner, a JV member, a sub-tier — what looks clean on the contract can hide a parent, a control chain, or a sanctions or screening exposure one or two ownership tiers down.
Settled as the Teaming Evidence PackIndependence checks lean on what a counterparty declares. The tie that matters — the ultimate owner, the adverse control, the screening exposure — usually sits a tier or two below the name on the page, where a self-declaration never reaches.
Who you’d really be committing to.
Typical reader: a programmes or partnerships lead.
Who controls your partner is a live question.
Teaming across the nuclear supply chain now runs through statutory screening: “Civil Nuclear” is one of the 17 mandatory sensitive sectors under the National Security and Investment Act, and the 2024-25 annual report (22 July 2025) recorded 1,143 notifications, 56 call-in notices and 17 final orders across the regime. Add fuel-cycle sanctions exposure to a state supplier such as Rosatom, and who controls your teaming partner — one or two ownership tiers down — is a live question, not a formality. See what changed →