Online Standards Provision

Description

The scope is to provide comprehensive and up-to-date online engineering, technical information and a legislative change notification service. This service is based upon specified technical information across Civil, Design, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Ventilation, Process and other Engineering disciplines. Access to the services is by means of a common web-based access portal for each Participating Entity to access all of the material and the range of services provided and as specified for their entity. The service shall provide unlimited access to all documents for multiple users. The proposed duration is one-year initial term followed by three optional extensions each of one year duration. Lot 1: The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) owns a number of UK nuclear sites. These sites have a need to access engineering and technical information. The requirement covers the provision of an online service to provide access to a range of engineering and technical information by the Participating Entities. The scope covers comprehensive and up-to-date online engineering, technical information and legislative change notification service. The service is based upon specified and agreed technical information across Civil, Design, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Ventilation, Process and other Engineering disciplines. This is a collaborative procurement across the NDA estate with Sellafield Ltd acting as collaborative lead to establish the framework, however each of the listed Participation Entities (see below) will be entering into their own contractual arrangements in relation to the framework call-offs. Participating Entities are Sellafield Ltd; Magnox Ltd; Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL); Nuclear Waste Services (joint trading name of both LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR)) and Radioactive Waste Management Ltd (RWM), International Nuclear Services (INS) operated by Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS) and AWE Aldermaston. The common core standards that the Participating Entities require access to are as follows or equivalent: • British Standards including the BS incorporation of Euro-norm and ISO standards -Active and Historical • BS Publicly Available Standards (PAS). • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - Active and Historical • American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Codes (ASME BPVC) - Active and Historical • UK Engineering and Construction Industry technical information (CIS) • Occupational Health and Safety technical information, legislation and guidance (OHSIS • Environmental Management Other standards that the various Participating Entities require access to are as follows: • IPC – Institute for interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits • AIA/NAS/Aer – active • AIA/NAS/Aer – historical • ACI -American Concrete Institute – Active and Historical • ASCE – Active and Historical • API – American Petroleum Institute – Active and Historical • ASTM -American Society for Testing Materials – Active and Historical • NATO • DOD – Department of Defence • MOD Defence specifications – Active and Historical • MODUK – Defence Contracts and quality Assurance Documents • ISO – International Organization for standardization – Active and Historical • DIN – Deutsches Institut fur Normung e.V • SAE – Society of Automotive Engineering • Joint Service Publications (JSPs) - Active and Historical • ESDU - Metallic materials data handbook • AISC – American Institute of Steel Construction • ANSI Collection • ANS – American Nuclear Society – active • IEEE Collection • Network Rail Standards – Active and Historical • US DoD standards (MIL SPECS etc) – Active and Historical • TIA-644-A • Defence standards (DEF-STANS) • Specify-it • IEC database 6061 • SAE/AMS&AS