The Nuclear Contracting Toolkit

This toolkit is intended to support all levels of procurement activities related to a nuclear power plant (NPP) development project, and to help manage expectations of stakeholders, customers and suppliers alike. It facilitates good practices and consistency, helps ensure purchases are made fairly with a high level of ethics, integrity and transparency, and contributes to long term safe and secure plant operation. While focusses on a new NPP, the processes and principles described can generally be applied to other large projects in the nuclear sphere such as major plant refurbishments, research reactors or fuel cycle facilties.

The processes, templates and guides allow procurement professionals to concentrate on the high value and risk areas in which the extra attention is required to achieve optimal results. While offering generic good practices such processes, templates, and guides will invariably need to be adapted and modified to fit a particular procurement scenario and local procurement environment.

This guidance is not a substitute for technical, legal, financial, and other professional advice. Users need to identify and comply with any relevant international, national, and internal organization guidelines, policies, procedures, codes, standards, laws, and regulations as required.

Consideration must be given to planning and risk management throughout the process, and records should be kept for audit purposes.