Research and development consultancy services

Tender 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). 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).