Nuclear Safety Case
The GDF design, construction and regulatory approval will be based on a number of safety cases which will be developed by NWS. The business does not have the internal capability to self deliver and the requirement is not enduring througout the GDF programme and beyond. <br/><br/>The business has identified a need to have access to specialist support on nuclear safety cases and associated capability.<br/><br/>A multi-Lot framework agreement providing the best access to a broad range of specialist capability from a r...
Buyer
Radioactive Waste Management Limited Trading as Nuclear Waste Services Limited
Value
£6,000,000
Published
20 Dec 2022
Closes
1 Feb 2023
Procurement details
Source
Find a Tender
Region
United Kingdom
Procurement method
Open
Category
Services
Contract starts
Not provided
Contract ends
Not provided
CPV classifications
79417000
Safety consultancy services
98113100
Nuclear safety services
Lots
Lot 1 Lot 1 - Safety Case Authors
£600,000
Safety case authors able to deliver top level safety reports, and effectively summarise more detailed, underlying documentation from the wider safety case. At this time, the main requirement will be for generalist safety case authors who have experience in the hazards arising from the handling of radioactive waste.
Delivery: United Kingdom
Lot 5 Lot 5 - Operational Environmental
£1,200,000
Operational Environmental Safety Assessment/ development of the preliminary BAT case, including:<br/>• Understanding of the regulatory context, environmental permitting and land-use planning requirements <br/>• Understanding of atmospheric dispersion modelling and key features of specific software packages<br/>• Understanding of dispersion modelling with res...
Delivery: United Kingdom
Lot 6 Lot 6 - Conventional Safety
£600,000
The GDF will be a large scale construction project with significant hazards especially those associated with underground working, mining, fire etc. Early consideration of these hazards will be required outlining the key conventional safety issues and summarising the work done to date to develop appropriate Hazard Management Strategies. Although early in the...
Delivery: United Kingdom
Lot 2 Lot 2 - Radiological
£1,800,000
At this stage (pre-concept), assessment will be limited to high level identification of potentially viable Hazard Management Strategies and broad scoping studies. Skills will be required in the following areas:<br/>• Radiological Safety (Fault) Assessment (deterministic and probabilistic)<br/>• External Hazards<br/>• Internal Hazards <br/>• Radiological Cons...
Delivery: United Kingdom
Lot 3 Lot 3 - Criticality Safety Assessment
£1,200,000
Requirement is for criticality HAZAN authors and specialists in criticality modelling (code drivers) to undertake review of existing criticality studies with the aim of demonstrating a criticality case can be made based on the proposed nuclear waste inventory. There will also be the need to start to develop criticality hazard management strategies.
Delivery: United Kingdom
Lot 4 Lot 4 - Human Factors
£600,000
Human factors will be an important consideration within the design process, and it is anticipated that it will place a number of important requirements on the design. However, at this early stage in the design process human factors input is going to be at a principle level rather than anything specific, probably around initial thoughts on a HF implementation...
Delivery: United Kingdom
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