Invitation to tender: External expert support for Finnish radiation and nuclear safety authority’s review and assessment of construction license application for Finnish KBS-3 repository for spent nuclear fuel

Säteilyturvakeskus

STUK, the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland, is the national organisation regulating nuclear safety. One of STUK’s sections, Nuclear Waste and Material Regulation, is responsible for the regulatory control of the safety of nuclear waste management. The Finnish nuclear power plant licensees whose operations have generated nuclear waste are responsible for waste management and disposal. Posiva Oy, owned by Finnish power companies Fortum Power and Heat Oyj (‘FPH’) and Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (‘TVO’), is responsible for disposal of spent nuclear fuel from its owners. STUK’s activities include regulatory review and assessment of Posiva's construction license application as well as the assessment of the quality, comprehensiveness and results of the research and development programme of Posiva. The review and assessment relates to the material, which aims to show safety of the disposal of spent nuclear fuel by Posiva.
With this Call for tenders STUK is seeking external experts to support the Section’s existing team of experts. The external expert services will mainly be carried out as remote work (jobs received by e-mail), and if needed in-house at the premises of STUK in Helsinki or at the Onkalo site in Olkiluoto Main deliverables will be written reviews, reports and documentation related to Posiva’s construction license application and R&D programme. Service documentation may consist of assessments, reports, literature surveys and other documentation. The experts are expected to be sound professionals in their field of expertise. Furthermore, external experts contracted by STUK shall be independent of Finnish power companies that are obliged to perform nuclear waste management, and of Posiva and Posiva’s partners in cooperation. The external support for nuclear waste management expertise is required in handling of Posiva’s construction license application for the final disposal of the spent nuclear fuel. Expertise needed concentrates in particular, for the years 2013 2015. The review and assessment work is emphasized mainly during first 2 years of the period mentioned.

Määräaika

Tarjousten vastaanottamisen määräaika oli 2012-09-28. Hankinta julkaistiin 2012-07-03.

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Hankintojen historia

Päivämäärä	Asiakirja
2012-07-03	hankintailmoitus
2013-04-08	Ilmoitus tehdystä sopimuksesta

hankintailmoitus (2012-07-03)
Kohde
Hankinnan laajuus
Otsikko: Tutkimus- ja kehitystoiminnan konsulttipalvelut
Määrä tai laajuus:

Upon conclusion of the framework contract, STUK will procure the service at intervals and in quantities as it deems necessary, through placing of purchase orders with the subject single contractor.The framework contract does not include a minimum procurement obligation and does not grant the Service Provider with the exclusive right to sell the Service to STUK.

Ilmoituksen metatiedot
Alkukieli: englanti 🗣️
Asiakirjatyyppi: hankintailmoitus
Sopimuksen luonne: Palvelut
Asetus: Euroopan unioni ja WTO-maat
Yhteinen hankintanimikkeistö (CPV)
Koodi: Tutkimus- ja kehitystoiminnan konsulttipalvelut 📦

Menettely
Menettelyn tyyppi: Avoin menettely
Tarjouksen tyyppi: Tarjous koskee vähintään yhtä erää
Myöntämisperusteet
Kokonaistaloudellisesti edullisin tarjous

Hankintaviranomainen
Tunnistetiedot
Maa: Suomi 🇫🇮
Hankintaviranomaisen tyyppi: Kansallinen tai liittovaltiotason virasto/laitos
Hankintaviranomaisen nimi: Säteilyturvakeskus
Postiosoite: PL 14
Postinumero: 00881
Postitoimipaikka: Helsinki
Yhteystiedot
Internetosoite: http://www.stuk.fi 🌏
Sähköposti: stuk@stuk.fi 📧
Puhelin: +358 9759881 📞
Faksi: +358 975988500 📠

Viite
Päivämäärät
Lähetyspäivä: 2012-07-03 📅
Tarjousten jättämisen määräaika: 2012-09-28 📅
Julkaisupäivä: 2012-07-06 📅
Tunnisteet
Ilmoituksen numero: 2012/S 128-212575
EUVL-S-numero: 128

Kohde
Hankinnan laajuus
Lyhyt kuvaus:

With this Call for tenders STUK is seeking external experts to support the Section’s existing team of experts. The external expert services will mainly be carried out as remote work (jobs received by e-mail), and if needed in-house at the premises of STUK in Helsinki or at the Onkalo site in Olkiluoto Main deliverables will be written reviews, reports and documentation related to Posiva’s construction license application and R&D programme. Service documentation may consist of assessments, reports, literature surveys and other documentation. The experts are expected to be sound professionals in their field of expertise. Furthermore, external experts contracted by STUK shall be independent of Finnish power companies that are obliged to perform nuclear waste management, and of Posiva and Posiva’s partners in cooperation. The external support for nuclear waste management expertise is required in handling of Posiva’s construction license application for the final disposal of the spent nuclear fuel. Expertise needed concentrates in particular, for the years 2013 2015. The review and assessment work is emphasized mainly during first 2 years of the period mentioned.

Osan numero: 1
Osan nimi: Safety Assessment, Key consultant
Määrä tai laajuus: Estimate of the quantities envisaged (hours indicated within the brackets) for a 3-year duration of the framework contract: The hours are to be considered merely as estimates of the quantity of the external expert work that might be procured, and they shall not constitute any procurement commitment.Safety Assessment.Lot 1, Safety Assessment, Key consultant (600-1200 h).

Estimate of the quantities envisaged (hours indicated within the brackets) for a 3-year duration of the framework contract: The hours are to be considered merely as estimates of the quantity of the external expert work that might be procured, and they shall not constitute any procurement commitment.

Safety Assessment.

Lot 1, Safety Assessment, Key consultant (600-1200 h).

Kesto: 36 kuukautta
Osan numero: 2
Osan nimi: Post-closure safety analysis, disposal facility
Määrä tai laajuus: Estimate of the quantities envisaged (hours indicated within the brackets) for a 3-year duration of the framework contract: The hours are to be considered merely as estimates of the quantity of the external expert work that might be procured, and they shall not constitute any procurement commitment.Lot 2, Post-closure safety analysis, disposal facility (450-750 h).
Lot 2, Post-closure safety analysis, disposal facility (450-750 h).
Osan numero: 3
Osan nimi: Chemical and biological features and processes in buffer and backfill
Määrä tai laajuus: Estimate of the quantities envisaged (hours indicated within the brackets) for a 3-year duration of the framework contract: The hours are to be considered merely as estimates of the quantity of the external expert work that might be procured, and they shall not constitute any procurement commitment:Lot 3, Chemical and biological features and processes in buffer and backfill (550-850 h).

Lot 3, Chemical and biological features and processes in buffer and backfill (550-850 h).

Osan numero: 4
Osan nimi: Physical and geomechanical features and processes in buffer and backfill
Määrä tai laajuus: Estimate of the quantities envisaged (hours indicated within the brackets) for a 3-year duration of the framework contract: The hours are to be considered merely as estimates of the quantity of the external expert work that might be procured, and they shall not constitute any procurement commitment.Lot 4, Physical and geomechanical features and processes in buffer and backfill (550-850 h).

Lot 4, Physical and geomechanical features and processes in buffer and backfill (550-850 h).

Osan numero: 5
Osan nimi: Structural design and mechanical integrity of the disposal canister
Määrä tai laajuus: Estimate of the quantities envisaged (hours indicated within the brackets) for a 3-year duration of the framework contract: The hours are to be considered merely as estimates of the quantity of the external expert work that might be procured, and they shall not constitute any procurement commitment:Lot 5, Structural design and mechanical integrity of the disposal canister (210-300 h).

Lot 5, Structural design and mechanical integrity of the disposal canister (210-300 h).

Osan numero: 6
Osan nimi: Properties of spent nuclear fuel as a source term
Määrä tai laajuus: Estimate of the quantities envisaged (hours indicated within the brackets) for a 3-year duration of the framework contract: The hours are to be considered merely as estimates of the quantity of the external expert work that might be procured, and they shall not constitute any procurement commitment:Lot 6, Properties of spent nuclear fuel as a source term (70-200 h).
Lot 6, Properties of spent nuclear fuel as a source term (70-200 h).
Osan numero: 7
Osan nimi: Modelling of long-term THMC evolution of the near field
Määrä tai laajuus: Estimate of the quantities envisaged (hours indicated within the brackets) for a 3-year duration of the framework contract: The hours are to be considered merely as estimates of the quantity of the external expert work that might be procured, and they shall not constitute any procurement commitment:Lot 7, Modelling of long-term THMC evolution of the near field (500-800 h).
Lot 7, Modelling of long-term THMC evolution of the near field (500-800 h).

Upon conclusion of the framework contract, STUK will procure the service at intervals and in quantities as it deems necessary, through placing of purchase orders with the subject single contractor.

The framework contract does not include a minimum procurement obligation and does not grant the Service Provider with the exclusive right to sell the Service to STUK.

Vaihtoehtojen kuvaus:

The duration of each framework contract is three years with an option to extend by 1 year.

After the basic contractual period of three years, STUK has the right to continue the period for one (1) optional year. STUK shall notify the Service Provider no later than three (3) months prior to the beginning of the optional year as to whether it intends to use the option.

Viitenumero: STUK reference number: 2/Y40019/2012Invitation to tender including attachments available for download at the official electronic notice board for public procurement in Finland in the address http://www.hilma.fi, contract notice number: 2012-051003.

Oikeudelliset, taloudelliset, rahoitukselliset ja tekniset tiedot
Osallistumisehdot
Kelpoisuus harjoittaa ammattitoimintaa:

The tenderer shall be enrolled on the registers relevant for the activity as an economic operator and for the practice of the profession, if so required by the applicable law of the country of establishment:

Possible registers include: a professional or a trade register, a register as an employer, for payment of Value-Added Tax, for the license, member of the relevant professional organisation.

If you are not enrolled on a register for the purpose of the Call for tenders, please provide clarification why registration is not applicable to you.

Required: You must provide supporting documentation evidencing the requirement above (the country of domicile, status, and the register data).

If you intend to submit the tender as a consortium or intend to include subcontractors, you must provide the same information and supporting documentation for each member of the consortium and for each subcontractor.

Exclusion criteria:

The tenderer shall have not committed an act of grave misconduct relating to his/her practice of the business or profession.

The STUK shall exclude a tenderer from competition if it will gain knowledge that the tenderer has been the subject of a conviction by final judgment for any of the reasons listed in the Finnish public procurement law (Act no. 348/2007, Section 53) relating to participation in a criminal organisation, bribery, tax fraud, money laundering, work discrimination, or corporate fine.

Taloudellinen ja rahoituksellinen asema:

Taxes and statutory payment obligations:

Tenderer has fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes and other statutory payments (e.g. social security contributions, insurance), as required by the applicable law of the country of establishment.

Required: Please provide supporting documentation evidencing the requirement above.

Tenderer’s economic and financial capacity shall be adequate in relation to size and quality of the service provision.

There is no minimum turnover requirement. The capacity is evaluated based on the clarifications and supporting documentation submitted by the tenderer.

Tekninen ja ammatillinen pätevyys:

— Human and technical resources:

The tenderer shall have sufficiently human resources (amount of personnel) and technical resources (the services will mainly be carried out as remote work) in order that the services can be produced without interruptions.

— Evidence of professional ability.

The tenderer must provide evidence of employing directly an expert or being readily capable of constituting or a team of experts capable of carrying out in a professional and timely manner the tasks that may be requested under the framework contract;

For Lot 1, Safety Assessment, Key consultant, the STUK expects that one individual will be able to provide the overall expert services of the lot. In the case of other lots, a team of experts can be considered.

The tenderer shall name in the tender the expert or team of experts that would carry out the expert tasks under the framework contract.

The named expert(s) shall commit to deliver the ordered tasks within the deadlines.

Experience, professional skills, quality of work and reliability shall be proven in relevant references and curricula vitae. The references and curricula vitae shall relate to the named expert(s).

— Independence and impartiality.

The expert(s) named in the tender shall be independent and impartial related to activities reviewed. A person who has participated in the planning or execution, or was otherwise involved in the activities related to Finnish nuclear waste disposal business during the last three (3) years before the deadline of the receipt of the tender, can not be accepted for providing services for STUK. That person shall not have been in assignments from Posiva, from Finnish power companies or the Swedish SKB, or from any direction with them or any other people acting in close co-operation / business with them, that they could compromise the independence and impartiality of the external expertise for STUK.

The tender shall include documentation regarding the independence and impartiality of the named expert(s) performing the tasks.

Independence and impartiality shall be documented and argued in the tender for each expert named in the tender.

— Language skills:

The service must be provided in the English language, that is:

The language used in meetings, tasks and in communication and reporting shall be English. The service provider must be able to produce all written material of the service provision in English. Translation costs will not be accepted in any form. The person(s) listed in the tender, who will participate in the provision of the service, shall be able to communicate and be able to write and draft reports in English.

— Availability:

It shall be possible that the named expert(s) participates in meetings as requested by STUK.

The key consultant (lot 1) shall be reachable in time frame of two days for tele conferences with STUK.

— Quality Assurance:

The tenderer is committed to quality assurance regarding the expert services to be provided to STUK:

Please clarify the existing measures of quality assurance or the measures that will be implemented for the scope of this service provision;

The measures should concern, for example, control mechanisms to guarantee the impartiality requirement, systems of customer satisfaction, processes of expert work, management of the service provision in general; how do you ensure the quality and continuous improvement of your service provision to STUK.

You can provide a description and/or attach a quality assurance certificate drawn up by an independent body.

Vähimmäistaso(t):

The named expert(s) must have a sound professional experience and prior expertise in all areas specified in the description of the lot. Documented references must provide proof of sound professional experience. At least one (1) reference must be documented so that the eligibility can be evaluated.

Educational background: Each expert shall have a degree of Master of Science or PhD or corresponding level.

Sopimuksen toteuttaminen
Oikeudellinen muoto, joka sen taloudellisten toimijoiden ryhmittymän, jonka kanssa hankintasopimus tehdään, on otettava:

The eligible status (legal form) of the tenderer as the economic operator: all eligible; You can be a natural person or a legal person. Please note that the framework contracts to be awarded are public procurement contracts and not employment contracts; this Call for tenders may not establish statutes of employer and employees between the STUK and the participants.

Henkilöstön nimet ja ammattipätevyydet ✅

Menettely
Puitejärjestelyn enimmäisosallistujamäärä: 7
Puitejärjestelyn kesto vuosina: 3
Tarjouksen voimassaoloaika: 5 kuukautta
Kielet
Kieli: englanti 🗣️
Muut kielet: The tender shall be drawn up in the English language. As regards supporting documentation that are certificates issued by external bodies, copies of original language versions, except for documentation in the Finnish and Swedish languages, shall be enclosed accompanied by translations into English.

Hankintaviranomainen
Yhteystiedot
Yhteyspiste: Säteilyturvakeskus

Viite
Tunnisteet
Hankintaviranomaisen antama viitenumero: STUK reference number: 2/Y40019/2012
Invitation to tender including attachments available for download at the official electronic notice board for public procurement in Finland in the address http://www.hilma.fi, contract notice number: 2012-051003.

Täydentävät tiedot
Arvostelurunko
Nimi: Markkinaoikeus
Postiosoite: Radanrakentajantie 5
Postitoimipaikka: Helsinki
Postinumero: 00520
Maa: Suomi 🇫🇮
Sähköposti: markkinaoikeus@oikeus.fi 📧
Puhelin: +358 295643300 📞
Internetosoite: http://www.oikeus.fi/markkinaoikeus 🌏
Faksi: +358 295643314 📠
Lähde: OJS 2012/S 128-212575 (2012-07-03)

Ilmoitus tehdystä sopimuksesta (2013-04-08)
Kohde
Hankinnan laajuus
Otsikko: Tutkimus- ja kehityspalvelut ja niihin liittyvät konsulttipalvelut
Ilmoituksen metatiedot
Asiakirjatyyppi: Ilmoitus tehdystä sopimuksesta
Yhteinen hankintanimikkeistö (CPV)
Koodi: Tutkimus- ja kehityspalvelut ja niihin liittyvät konsulttipalvelut 📦

Menettely
Tarjouksen tyyppi: Ei sovelleta

Viite
Päivämäärät
Lähetyspäivä: 2013-04-08 📅
Julkaisupäivä: 2013-04-11 📅
Tunnisteet
Ilmoituksen numero: 2013/S 071-117544
Viittaa ilmoitukseen: 2012/S 128-212575
EUVL-S-numero: 71

Kohde
Hankinnan laajuus
Arvioitu arvo ilman arvonlisäveroa: 398 590 💰
674 250 💰
Viitenumero: 2/Y40019/2012.
Arvioitu arvo ilman arvonlisäveroa: 85 800 💰
171 600 💰
59 850 💰
99 750 💰
74 250 💰
114 750 💰
28 980 💰
41 400 💰
8 960 💰
25 600 💰
66 500 💰
106 400 💰
Suorituspaikka
Pääkohde tai suorituspaikka: Helsinki.

Menettely
Myöntämisperusteet
Kriteeri: 1. Price (30)
2. Quality (70)

Sopimuksen tekeminen

1️⃣
Sopimuksen tekemispäivä: 2013-01-14 📅
Nimi: Southwest Research Institute - Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses
Maa: Yhdysvallat 🇺🇸

2️⃣
Nimi: Quintessa Ltd.
Maa: Iso-Britannia 🇬🇧

3️⃣
Nimi: Savage Earth Associates Ltd.

4️⃣
Nimi: TerraSalus Ltd.

5️⃣
Nimi: Inspecta Oy & TÜV Rheinland Industrie Service GmbH
Maa: Suomi 🇫🇮

6️⃣
Nimi: Intera Inc.

7️⃣
Tietoa tarjouskilpailuista
Saatujen tarjousten määrä: 6
8
7
4

Hankintaviranomainen
Tunnistetiedot
Kansallinen rekisterinumero: 74-1070544
3716623
7258513
5976590
178753-0
FEIN 74-3010638
Lähde: OJS 2013/S 071-117544 (2013-04-08)

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