Innovation in Contracting Strategy for a Master Services Agreement for Remediation of Low Level Radioactive Waste - 18381
- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, 115 Toronto Road, Port Hope, Ontario, L1A 3S4 (Canada)
The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) is a federal environmental clean-up program. Its mandate is the remediation and local, long-term, safe management of approximately 1.7 million cubic metres of historic low-level radioactive waste in the adjacent communities of Port Hope and Port Granby in Southern Ontario, Canada. The PHAI is being undertaken by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), on behalf of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, a federal Crown corporation. It is currently one of the largest environmental remediation projects in Canada. The safety of workers, the public and the environment while delivering the PHAI on time and within budget is CNL's number one priority. The PHAI is being carried out as two projects - the Port Hope Project and the Port Granby Project. The Port Hope Project is the larger of the two and includes the cleanup of approximately 1.2 million cubic metres of historic waste from several locations, including the Port Hope Harbour, a closed municipal landfill and approximately 800 residential properties. This complex project requires contracting the services of qualified, skilled and experienced environmental remediation contractors to meet the diverse needs of the myriad tasks that comprise the remediation and restoration of all properties. This paper will highlight how the CNL contracting services team developed an innovative approach to a contracting strategy designed to deliver the safe execution of work and keep the project on time and within budget. The approach addresses the complexities of a scope of work that consists of multiple work packages to be executed both concurrently and in tandem, and that require highly specialized trades/skills, as well as high-level project management expertise to ensure seamless coordination among the various contractors. The author will discuss CNL's strategy to engage the market with a Request for Expression of Interest to identify potential qualified suppliers and gauge their level of interest, issue a Request for Prequalification (RFPQ) to determine eligible contractors and, ultimately, issue a Request for Proposal for a Master Services Agreement (MSA) that would competitively evaluate each contractor's direct experience, technical expertise, quality management programs, safety systems compliance and track record. Using CNL's experience as a case study, the paper will highlight how an innovative approach can positively affect project timelines by describing how CNL addressed the challenge associated with the limited time available to implement procurement processes and deliver a series of executed agreements while ensuring that work would begin on time and key project milestones would be met. The author will summarize how CNL's strategy put the project back on schedule, without compromising the process guideline/requirements, and ensured that a qualified and experienced set of contractors, committed to a strong safety culture, will be available to perform the work required when the cleanup in the Port Hope community begins in 2018. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22977686
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-20-WM-18381; TRN: US21V0316017731
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2018: 44. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 18-22 Mar 2018; Other Information: Country of input: France; 2 refs.; Available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2018/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LTD
COMPLIANCE
CONTRACTORS
DECONTAMINATION
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
ONTARIO
PERSONNEL
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
RADIATION PROTECTION
RECOMMENDATIONS
REMEDIAL ACTION
SAFETY CULTURE
SAFETY STANDARDS
SANITARY LANDFILLS