Provision of Inspection and Quality Assurance Services

Sellafield Ltd acting as the lead for a collaborative procurement on behalf of the NDA group of organisations, including but not limited to, Dounreay Site Restoration Limited, Magnox Limited, Nuclear Waste Services (joint trading name of both Low Level Waste Repository Ltd and Radioactive Waste Management Ltd, Nuclear Transport Solutions (joint trading name of International Nuclear Services Ltd and Direct Rail Services Ltd), Sellafield Ltd (the Participating Entities). Sellafield Ltd is seeking to enter into an arrangement for the Provision of Inspection and Quality Assurance Services including but not exclusive to welding; mechanical; industrial coating; CE&I inspection and Non Destructive Testing (NDT) supported by welding and metallurgy Subject Matter Experts (SME's).

The service will be provided at Participating Entity sites and the sites of suppliers from across the UK and overseas

In relation to the delivery of products and services from both local and overseas suppliers, provision of independent third party inspection services are required to; - comply with regulatory and legal obligations. - assure compliance with specifications and requirements; and - ensure that standards are met.

The value stated above is for the maximum contract term of 60 months, which consists of an initial contract term of 36 months with an option for two extension periods of 12 months each.

The start date stated below is the contract start date for the provision of the service under the new contractual arrangement. As set out in the procurement documents the indicative date for contract award/transition commencement is 30/06/23, which will allow a period of approximately 4 months to transition to the new contractual arrangement. The procurement documents are available via the https://one-nda.force.com/s/Welcome portal. Once you have registered on and accessed the portal, use Atamis reference C8509 to access the Provision of Inspection and Quality Assurance opportunity to: - view the tender documents, - ask questions or request further information using the inbuilt messaging facility; and - submit your tender response. The tender opportunity will be managed in its entirety via the Atamis e-tendering system and its messaging facility must be used as the communication method to request further information or ask any questions.