Official UK procurement notice
Independent Certification Assessment Services
Authority: Sellafield Limited (Public body)
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72)Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£2,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 28 May 2024from the planned procurement notice
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Prior Information Notice (PIN) is further Market Engagement following the initial PIN.<br/><br/>As a result of this PIN and as part of the Market Engagement activity, Sellafield Ltd is seeking to obtain feedback on the Proposed scope, Draft H&S questions and Proposed tender time, as set out in the supporting Independent Certification Assessment Services PIN shared via Atamis, as referred to in II.2.14.1 Additional Information. <br/><br/>Interested Parties can provide their feedback by completing the Request for Information (Rfi) PIN on Atamis (Record Ref: C19464).
CPV: Certification services · System quality assurance planning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
- The Service Provider must be a UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accredited certification body, or equivalent, by those accreditation bodies that that are members of the European or international multilateral agreements (i.e. those operated by EA, ILAC and IAF) and must be accredited to conduct verification of annual emissions data and if applicable, verification associated with Free Allocation of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, (UK ETS) in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020. <br/>2. The Service Provider’s assessors must be:<br/>a. International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA) registered;<br/>b. lead or principal auditors;<br/>c. have sufficient resources qualified to provide assessment and certification against multiple ISO Standards for all entities specified within the scope of this contract. The details of the scope of existing accreditation/certifications which need to be provided can be found within Annexe 2 of this document. Services required include Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), Health and Safety Management Systems (HSMS), UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS), Energy Management Systems, Asset Management Systems, Information Security Management Systems, Collaborative Business Relationship Management Systems, and Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) assessments; and<br/>d. have experience in quality, energy, environment, health & safety, information security, business continuity, and experience of the nuclear industry or equivalent similar industry<br/>e. Must have the capability to conduct combined visits assessing against ISO standards 9001/14001/45001/55001. <br/>f. Must be able to provide a combination of both remote services and site visits where required. <br/>3. Where certification is required for three or more standards it is a requirement that the Service Provider’s assessors are qualified to audit against a minimum of two of the standards (“Standards” shall include, but not be limited to ISO Standards 9001/14001/22304/27001/44001/45001/50001/55001, ISO 14064, ISO 22301, OHSAS 18001, BS 25999 and legislation, such as UK ETS and the service provider must be able to manage multiple certifications in a cost effective way. <br/>The full proposed Scope can be found on Atamis Independent Certification Assessment Services PIN. (Record ref C19464) Additional information: As referenced in II.1.4) Short Description, the market engagement activity will be managed via the shared Service Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) OneNDA eCommercial Systems powered by Atamis, which can be accessed via the URL https//atamis-2464.my.site.com/s/Welcome <br/><br/>Once registered on Atamis you can access the request for Information PIN using the record reference C19464 . where you will be able to find the Proposed scope, draft H&S Questions, Supplier Journey pdf (paying particular attention to pages 15 & 23) and a 'Request for Information' (Rfi) template. Please return your completed Rfi template by attaching to a message using the 'New Messages' functionality. Completed Rfi's should be returned at the earliest opportunity and preferably by 12.00 on Tuesday 30th April 2024.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Apr 2024, 11:35 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Apr 2024, 11:35 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-011594- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Apr 2024 → 28 May 2024 · 2 dates- Notice published10 Apr 2024, 11:35 BST
- Tender notice expected28 May 2024, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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