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: 1. Site decommissioning and remediation: — Secretary to the nuclear Industry Group for Land Quality inc. support the interaction of the group withstakeholders, — Technical project manager to facilitate the development and delivery of DRP projects. Integrated Waste Management: — Review of Radioactive Waste Management Fora. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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 & Dtables, technology maps, process wiring diagrams).