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15/11/2011

Magnox Awards £304m Contract

Magnox has awarded a Framework Contract worth £304 million for de-planting, demolition and bulk asbestos removal across 10 nuclear reactor sites in the UK.

Magnox, who operate the sites on behalf of their owner – the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), has established a pioneering framework model including a number of specialist contractors: Doosan Keltbray Consortium, Celadon*, Erith, Squibb/LVI Group, Nuvia, EDS/Kitsons

The work, at the sites of the UK's first generation of nuclear power stations, will start in the coming months and beginning with the de-planting of the boiler houses at Bradwell Site in Essex and the demolition of admin and ancillary buildings at Dungeness A Site in Kent.
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The Framework Contract – which was developed by working closely with the supply chain - will allow more efficient commercial arrangements between Magnox and its contractors, reducing tendering costs and provide a supply chain ‘toolbox’ to meet the needs of the various projects over the coming years.

Alan Bladon, Programme Director, said: "This gives us a great opportunity to outperform our decommissioning plans by building long term supply chain relationships, learning from experience, and increasing our ability to deliver."

He added: "We have brought together a number of related projects in line with our approach to optimised decommissioning which, overall, is expected to save the taxpayer more than £1.3 billion as sites are delivered into care and maintenance."

(CD)

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