Published date: 18 October 2021

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 17 November 2021

Contract summary

Industry

  • Engineering design services - 71320000

  • Miscellaneous engineering services - 71330000

  • Technical support services - 71356300

Location of contract

North West

Procurement reference

CTM RFT 13743

Published date

18 October 2021

Closing date

17 November 2021

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The scope is to provide comprehensive and up-to-date online engineering, technical information and legislative change notification service. This service shall be based upon specified and agreed technical information across Civil, Design, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Ventilation, Process and other Engineering disciplines.
Sellafield Ltd intends to procure the services, as a Central Purchasing Body on behalf of the following Participating Entities (PE)
• Sellafield Ltd (SL)
• Direct Rail Services Ltd (DRS)
• Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DRSL)
• LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR)
• Magnox Ltd (MGX)
• National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL)
• Radioactive Waste Management (RWM)
• AWE Aldermaston
• International Nuclear Services (INS)
• Direct Rail Services Ltd (DRS)*
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)*
* may wish to join collaboration during the term of the contract.
Access to the services shall be by means of a common web-based access portal for each PE to access all of the material and the range of services provided and as specified for their entity. The service shall provide unlimited access to all documents for multiple users. Tenderers must state if there are any limitations on user numbers for access to the portal for each PE.
Each of the PEs may require access to all or only some of the services available under the contract. It is intended that each PE will specify its particular scope and will have separate billing and payment options which tenderers will be required to accommodate. PEs may increase or reduce in size due to changes to number of locations, employee numbers, etc throughout the duration of the contract. The agreement must have the ability to add and remove standards before award and as required at the point of renewal each year.


More information

Additional text

Contents Requirements:
The common standards that the majority of PEs require access to are as follows or equivalent:
• British Standards including the BS incorporation of Euro-norm and ISO standards -Active and Historical
• BS Publicly Available Standards (PAS).
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - Active and Historical
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Codes (ASME BPVC) - Active and Historical
• UK Engineering and Construction Industry technical information (CIS)
• Occupational Health and Safety technical information, legislation and guidance (OHSIS
• Environmental Management
Additional standards and services PEs may require access to our detailed below:
• IPC - Institute for interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits
• AIA/NAS/Aer - active
• AIA/NAS/Aer - historical
• ACI -American Concrete Institute - Active and Historical
• ASCE - Active and Historical
• API - American Petroleum Institute - Active and Historical
• ASTM -American Society for Testing Materials - Active and Historical
• NATO
• DOD - Department of Defence
• MOD Defence specifications - Active and Historical
• MODUK - Defence Contracts and quality Assurance Documents
• ISO - International Organization for standardization - Active and Historical
• DIN - Deutsches Institut fur Normung e.V
• SAE - Society of Automotive Engineering
• Joint Service Publications (JSPs) - Active and Historical
• ESDU - Metallic materials data handbook
• AISC - American Institute of Steel Construction
• ANSI Collection
• ANS - American Nuclear Society - active
• IEEE Collection
• Network Rail Standards - Active and Historical
• US DoD standards (MIL SPECS etc) - Active and Historical
• TIA-644-A
• Defence standards (DEF-STANS)
• Specify-it
• IEC database 6061
• SAE/AMS&AS
The list above is not exhaustive and PEs may wish to use additional standards the service provider is able to offer, therefore the service provider must have the ability to create a bespoke package of a selection of standards to meet the needs of each individual PE, noting this could change before each contract year begins.


About the buyer

Contact name

Gemma Cardilli

Address

Calder Bridge
Seascale
CA20 1PG
England

Email

gemma.l.cardilli@sellafieldsites.com

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/shared-services-alliance-ssa-for-nuclear-decommissioning-estate