Sellafield Launching ?1.5 billion Procurement for Cleanup Suppliers

Sellafield Limited is looking for long-term cleanup suppliers for the U.K. site using a 10-year agreement that could be worth up to £1.5 billion ($2.5 billion), the company said yesterday. The work would come under the Decommissioning Delivery Partnership, which “is not a traditional contract but a commercial framework agreement that can be called upon when support is required,” according to a Sellafield release. “There is no guaranteed work or committed expenditure however the rewards to the chosen suppliers could be great.” Scope of the agreement would cover technical expertise, project management, design and execution services, an “innovator and developer” for technology development and a “change agent” for planning and delivery of transitions. 

 

The acquisition process has formally been launched and Sellafield is currently prequalifying interested bidders. A “tendering process” will take place in late 2014 and awards to “preferred suppliers” will take place in mid-2015. “Our job in decommissioning is very simple and very, very important – it is to accelerate risk and hazard reduction at Sellafield,” Sellafield Chief Decommissioning Officer Jack DeVine said in a statement. “To help us complete this clean-up mission, and building on our own experience, we are adding a new dimension to our engagement with the supply chain.  Essentially we will put in place a commercial mechanism so that we can very quickly and efficiently pull together specialist resources for decommissioning work to supplement our existing workforce.”