Radioactive waste treatment services

Tender description

LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR) leads the delivery of the National Waste Programme (NWP) on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority through the following activities: — implementing the radioactive waste hierarchy, — making best use of existing radioactive waste management assets, — meeting the need for new fit-for-purpose radioactive waste management routes. LLWR wishes to appoint up to a maximum of 8 suppliers to a framework agreement for radioactive metallic waste treatment services. LLWR is inviting bidders to deliver radioactive metallic waste treatment and associated services largely consisting of: — waste characterisation, — waste generation/enabling services, — packaging, — transport, — receipt, — storage, — sorting and size-reduction, — treatment, — primary/secondary waste management, — service/project management, — expert support. LLWR wishes to establish a radioactive metallic waste treatment services framework agreement with up to a maximum of 8 suppliers. The framework will be for use by organisations that either currently hold, or may in future enter into, a Waste Services Contract with LLWR. These organisations include private sector bodies, plus public sector bodies that fall into one or more of the following categories: 1) Any of the following and their future successors: (a) ministerial government departments; (b) non-ministerial government departments; (c) executive agencies of government; (d) Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), including advisory NDPBs, executive NDPBs, and tribunal NDPBs; (e) Assembly Sponsored Public Bodies (ASPBs); (f) police forces; (g) fire and rescue services; (h) ambulance services; (i) maritime and coastguard agency services; (j) NHS bodies; (k) educational bodies or establishments including state schools (nursery schools, primary schools, middle or high schools, secondary schools, special schools), academies, colleges, Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), further education colleges and universities; (l) hospices; (m) national parks; (n) housing associations, including registered social landlords; (o) third sector and charities; (p) citizens advice bodies; (q) councils, including county councils, district councils, county borough councils, community councils, London borough councils, unitary councils, metropolitan councils, parish councils; (r) public corporations; (s) public financial bodies or institutions; (t) public pension funds; (u) central banks; and (v) civil service bodies, including public sector buying organisations; 2) Those listed and maintained by the Government on their website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations or any replacement or updated web-link 3) Those listed and maintained by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) at https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/datasets/publicsectorclassificationguide or any replacement or updated web-link; 4) Those bodies in England, Wales or Northern Ireland which are within the scope of the definition of ‘Contracting Authority’ in Regulation 2(1) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR) and/or Schedule 1 PCR.