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.