Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Specialist Independent Review of Technical and Strategic Work on Site Decommissioning and Remediation, Integrated Waste Management, Spent Fuels and Nuclear Materials — Multi Supplier Framework
Herdus House
Moor Row
CA24 3HU
UK
Contact person: Matt McClure
Telephone: +44 1925802061
E-mail: procurement.tenders@nda.gov.uk
NUTS: UKD11
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/nuclear-decommissioning-authority
I.3) Communication
Access to the procurement documents is restricted. Further information can be obtained at:
http://procurement.tenders@nda.gov.uk
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
http://procurement.tenders@nda.gov.uk
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
National or federal agency/office
I.5) Main activity
Other: nuclear decommissioning
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Specialist Independent Review of Technical and Strategic Work on Site Decommissioning and Remediation, Integrated Waste Management, Spent Fuels and Nuclear Materials- Multi Supplier Framework.
Reference number: MM000224
II.1.2) Main CPV code
73200000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Projects under the framework are expected to fall under the following areas:
— Providing specialist support in formulating, developing and underpinning NDA's strategy across all strategy themes — Independent peer-review of technical documents, plans, programmes of work and projects under other frameworks, e.g. DRP — Assist NDA with technology management and associated plans and procedures.
— Assist NDA in coordinating and managing technical and strategic meetings, workshops and forums — Assist NDA to develop scopes of work, e.g. Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents for competition under other frameworks (mostly DRP) — Support to technical assessment of tender responses to ITTs and deliverables.
— Desk based strategic assessments where they do not belong under the scope of DRP framework — Experimental work is not in the scope of this framework.
Contract value estimated to be 2 000 000 GBP over 4 years (24+12+12 months).
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
2 000 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Examples of type of activities and scope associated with each of the areas could include, but are not limited to, the following:
Site Decommissioning and Remediation
— Secretary to the Nuclear Industry Group for Land Quality inc. support the interaction of the group with stakeholders.
— Technical project manager to facilitate the development and delivery of DRP projects.
Integrated Waste Management
— Review of Radioactive Waste Management Fora.
Spent Fuels
— Development of road-maps for Oxide, Magnox and Exotic spent fuel R&D.
— Support in coordinating and managing technical meetings and forums on spent fuel management.
— Independent review of R&D deliverables.
Nuclear Materials
— Support to NDA work on uranics and plutonium disposition.
— Development and review of technical road-maps on Plutonium disposition options.
— Independent review of technical documents on Plutonium disposition options.
Research and Development
— Independent review of DRP framework contractors' deliverables.
— Review and analysis of site license companies TBuRD submissions (e.g. Annual Technical Reports, R&D tables, Technology Maps, Process Wiring Diagrams).
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
2 000 000.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 48
This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
Description of renewals:
24 + 12 + 12 (Months).
II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 3
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted:
No
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.2) Economic and financial standing
List and brief description of selection criteria:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please see Selection Questionnaire. This provides full details of the NDA's requirement and the information its requires to be completed.
Minimum level(s) of standards required:
Provides evidence that there has been no qualification of audited accounts in the past 2 consecutive years(or, where the Potential Provider is a Consortium, that no member of the Consortium has accounts that are qualified); and Shows that the financial standing of the Potential Provider is such that a Dun and Bradstreet Risk Indicator rating of 1 or 2 would be achieved (or in the case of a Consortium, the financial information submitted by any member of the Consortium shows that each member would achieve a Risk Indicator rating of 1 or 2) or, if the Risk Indicator rating would be greater than 2, the Potential Provider has presented evidence of mitigating circumstances that in NDA's sole discretion demonstrates that the Potential Provider is sufficiently financially robust to deliver the requirement.
III.1.3) Technical and professional ability
List and brief description of selection criteria:
Please see Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. This provides full details of the NDA's requirement and the information its requires to be completed.
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Restricted procedure
IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement with several operators.
Envisaged maximum number of participants to the framework agreement: 5
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
14/09/2017
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.3) Additional information
The chosen suppliers must have Cyber Essentials accreditation or an accreditation which meets the requirements of Cyber Essentials.
SQ documentation should be requested from tenders.procurement@nda.gov.uk
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
15/08/2017