A ground-breaking new way of awarding long-term work packages at the Sellafield site has reached another major milestone with a £20 million deal.
NIS Ltd, Hyde Group, Ansaldo Nuclear, James Fisher Nuclear, Carr’s Group, West Cumberland Engineering and NWEC Alliance have been appointed via the Programme and Project Partners (PPP) to deliver fabricated and manufactured equipment packages for the projects, agreed for an initial three years, worth up to £20m.
The package is the first of the Goods/Services Agreements to be awarded by PPP as part of a major framework spanning the next 18 years. Items and equipment to be provided include process cabinets, encast Items, bogies and rail systems.
It has been procured under a model which encourages long-term collaboration throughout the supply chain, enhanced project delivery, and paves the way for greater economic and social impact in the West Cumbria.
The model will see the appointment of key delivery partners and GSA Framework suppliers to deliver work packages covering everything from electrical and instrumentation and fabrication and manufacturing to groundworks and general civils.
Tom Wiseman, GSA01 Framework Manager, said: “PPP has undertaken a rigorous selection process over the last 12 months in order to reach this position. I am delighted to work alongside all of the successful suppliers for the next three years and am confident that they will all deliver the benefits for the projects that this framework has been established to do.”
Steve Tulk, sales director at James Fisher Nuclear Ltd, said: “JFN has been a long-term supporter of the Sellafield decommissioning programme as part of a concerted effort to clean up the legacy of our nuclear heritage.
“The company is pleased to be part of this important exciting new and collaborative framework. This achievement is a real testament to the hard work of the entire JFN team and an endorsement of our shared history of innovation and collaboration on site at Sellafield. We look forward to working with our framework partners to drive forward project delivery and support PPP / Sellafield Ltd to achieve increased certainty in delivery to its customer (the NDA).”
Ben Gilbert, technical proposals manager, said: “Carr’s Engineering Group are proud of to be a member of the GSA-01 framework; we look forward to strengthening our relationship with the MPP framework team and the wider PPP Lot Partners. We believe the PPP provides a strong, transparent and collaborative structure between Sellafield, the Lot Partners and their suppliers which will help Sellafield to achieve their goals as well as benefiting local businesses and communities.”
Graeme Phillips, managing director at West Cumberland Engineering Ltd, said: “We are proud to build on our existing relationship with PPP having already supplied SCP Phase 1 & 2 wall boxes/encast items and in the process of completing 23 No high integrity vessels also for the SCP project.
“This long term Fabricated & Manufactured Equipment contract will enable us to offer enhanced employment opportunities within West Cumbria and provide long term investment in people and facilities in an area of the country that has recently been decimated with industrial closures.”
McMenon CEO Anand Puthran and Chief Operating Officer Shiby Bernard said: “When we acquired the business from a global corporation in 2018, we promised our Cumbrian workforce that our future growth would include diversification into nuclear and renewable sectors. Now being included as a delivery partner in the PPP framework is a major step in fulfilling that promise to our people.
“And it gives us even more satisfaction to envisage the success of the NWEC Alliance culminating in increased job opportunities within the alliance and our supply partners in Cumbria.”
Joint owners of TIS Cumbria, Tony O’Pray and John Bragg, said: “We are delighted that the NWEC Alliance has been successfully named as a Key Delivery Partner on the PPP framework at Sellafield for the next three years.
“The commitment of the alliance between TIS Cumbria and McMenon Engineering over many years has matured, enabling our two West Cumbrian SME’s to sit equally beside our elite Tier 2 manufacturers in the UK.
“We would like to thank the PPP project team for their confidence in recognising the capabilities of our West Cumbrian alliance and we hope this success will be reflected out into the local community.”
PPP will work closely with all Key Delivery Partners and GSA Framework Suppliers to deliver its ambition to create a clean and safe environment at the Sellafield site for future generations, improve sustainability and better outcomes for the local economy and communities.
The PPP partnership is made up of lot partners KBR (integration partner); Jacobs (design and engineering partner); Morgan Sindall Infrastructure (civils construction management partner) and Doosan Babcock Ltd (process construction management partner) and Sellafield Ltd as the fifth partner, to support the site’s 100-year decommissioning programme.
Will Pearson, business development director at Hyde Group Nuclear, said: “This framework provides a commercial route through which we can provide the capability and capacity of the Hyde group of companies in support of the PPP mission. The Hyde Group provide a broad range of engineering and manufacturing services from our twenty facilities in Manchester, and we look forward to working with PPP to deliver the major programmes of work at Sellafield, whilst also bringing benefits to our wider community.”
Andrea Basso, managing director of Ansaldo Nuclear Limited, said: “This endorsement by PPP provides an excellent opportunity for Ansaldo to continue its successful relationship with Sellafield and to further develop its Cumbrian presence and supply chain.”
NIS managing director Steve Rothwell commented: “NIS has been supporting the delivery of Sellafield Major Projects for over three decades, so we are thrilled with this latest award which perfectly complements our growing PPP portfolio.
“We look forward to playing our part in the successful delivery of this framework and strengthening our collaboration with both PPP and the other framework partners.”