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Building our industrial future Hinkley Point C Supply Chain – be part of it Building an industrial future - be part of it Contents Introduction 02 Working together to deliver Hinkley Point C 04 Supporting local businesses 06 Be involved working on site 08 How to be part of it 10 Need help? 18 About us EDF is the world’s leading nuclear power utility and one of Europe’s largest energy companies with 38 million customers across Europe and 156,000 employees worldwide. EDF Energy is the largest producer of low carbon electricity in the UK and produces around one-fifth of the country’s electricity from its nuclear power stations, wind farms, coal and gas stations and combined heat and power plants. EDF Energy operates 15 nuclear reactors at sites across the UK and has published plans to build four more - two at Hinkley Point C (HPC) in Somerset and two at Sizewell C (SZC) in Suffolk, subject to the right investment framework. NNB Generation Company (NNB GenCo) is the nuclear new build subsidiary of EDF Energy and will run HPC and SZC. www.edfenergy.com 02 Be part of it Hinkley Point C Supply Chain Now more than ever, it’s a great opportunity to get involved in preparations for the planned Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset. This £16 billion project is intended to provide a boost to UK manufacturing and skills as well as delivering a power station that can power 5 million UK homes with affordable, low carbon electricity. This booklet provides you with a step-by-step guide on the procurement opportunities and the process involved in becoming a qualified supplier equipped to meet the specific needs of the nuclear industry. It also includes a list of contacts you might need to help you through the process. 03 Section 1 Building an industrial future - be part of it Working together to deliver Hinkley Point C EDF Energy wants to work with UK companies in this multi-billion pound national infrastructure project - our studies show that 57% of construction costs can be spent in the UK. 04 As the first nuclear power station to be built By pooling their experience and capabilities British in the country since 1995, the Hinkley Point C firms working with French and other international project team is doing everything possible to companies that have specialisms in the nuclear ensure that UK manufacturers are capable of area could be better placed to pool resources winning their share of contracts to provide and export their skills on this world stage. high-tech components such as valves, Working together EDF Energy will have around 80 manufacturing pumps and pipes. related contracts of their own to let. In addition, Requirements for supplying to the nuclear the company’s key supply partners (Areva, Bylor, industry are stringent. The UK is known as a Costain and Alstom) will need to let many world class manufacturer of equipment such sub-contracts for manufacturing work. as valves, pumps, pipes and chillers, with many to deliver Hinkley The manufacturing needs arise from the main companies already supplying other industries areas of construction for the new nuclear power including the oil and gas industry. station which are; civil works, marine works, However, the detailed verification and quality turbines, instrumentation & control, nuclear control required for components that will go into steam supply systems and nuclear fuel. Point C a nuclear power station are unique and there are Some contracts available include tunnel relatively few companies in the UK that already segments, tunnel boring machines, rebar have the mechanisms in place to provide this and steel liners, heat exchangers, pumps, level of detail about their own manufacturing valves, pipes, cable tags, fixings and cables. supply chain. Alongside advice on how to qualify as a supplier to the nuclear industry in their own right EDF Energy is also facilitating meetings between UK firms and their French counterparts who are experienced in the nuclear industry. By encouraging collaboration of this sort, the company hopes to create a legacy from this project of UK firms being ready to compete for other nuclear contracts in the UK and around the world. There are already hundreds of billions of pounds worth of nuclear projects planned or underway around the world. 05 Section 1 Building an industrial future - be part of it Supporting local businesses and national skills Local businesses and UK workers given specific support so they will benefit from the Hinkley Point C project. 06 As part of its campaign to ensure the wider The positive impact from a multi-billion pound positive impact of construction at Hinkley Point C investment into the local area will be felt for EDF Energy is helping to equip local businesses to generations to come. Local businesses and win contracts to support the building of the communities will benefit. The new skills and new nuclear power station. knowledge that construction workers and those who work on-site during the operation of the Working with Somerset Chamber of Commerce station will create a pool of expertise that we the company is helping local firms to find new hope will attract more businesses to the region. ways to collaborate to secure a share of £500 The employment and new skills will also bring million worth of contracts for the services needed benefits to individuals, and their families, to support the operation of the site during the and UK economy. nine years of construction. In big construction projects these contracts (such as providing The company’s desire to use local businesses thousands of meals every day, plumbing and is based on robust business benefit for the electrical work in accommodation blocks), would project, including encouraging supplier loyalty, often go directly to multi-national facilities building sustainable local partnerships in a services companies. However, EDF Energy is trying local supply chain, and reducing transport and to create a bigger positive legacy for the project accommodation costs. by equipping local businesses to compete for An accommodation office will provide such work by working together. information to the workforce about high quality If it succeeds this arrangement would mean local accommodation while they are working on local companies will feed workers with produce site. EDF Energy will also provide its own high- grown and prepared by local firms and transport quality campus accommodation for workers, workers to site whilst the site and offices will be which will help provide for workers’ needs in cleaned by local companies too. purpose-built facilities. EDF Energy is also working to ensure local people The Hinkley Point C project team has signed are suitably skilled to work in the local businesses groundbreaking labour agreements with trade and on the project itself. The Construction union partners which will ensure that all workers Industry Skills Centre, built in collaboration with on site will benefit from best in class working Bridgwater College, close to the Hinkley Point C conditions. It also guarantees that, irrespective site, will help equip local people with the skills of where workers on site come from, they will needed to work on a wide range of construction be paid the same rate for the job according to sites including Hinkley Point C and so will help a framework agreed with trade union partners. build a skilled workforce in the south west. This builds into the project a structural incentive A similar centre, the Energy Skills centre has to avoid the costs associated with bringing in been developed to focus specifically on the workers from far afield and so will encourage technical and engineering skills needed in EDF Energy and its partners to offer as many the energy industry across the UK. jobs as possible to local people. £30 million has already been awarded to more than 130 local small and medium sized businesses and a further £40 million has been spent with similar sized businesses across the region, with over 70 benefiting from the early site-enabling works already completed. 07 Section 1 Building an industrial future - be part of it Be involved working on site The construction site at Hinkley Point C will be a safe, efficient and good working environment where we deliver on time and on budget. 08 The success of the Hinkley Point C construction ensuring that the supervisory teams are properly will depend on successful delivery on site. trained and ready. Work also continues with To ensure success EDF Energy will not start skills bodies such at the National Skills Academy for work until we are sure we are ready and until Nuclear Manufacturing and the Nuclear AMRC to we are sure that we will not have to stop. implement training programmes for supervisors across the manufacturing supply chain. Being ready means that we will have a stable and secure engineering design and we will have a The emphasis on getting everything ready before schedule of work which is built around the needs of we start, including achieving stability of design construction and has been developed hand-in hand and getting all permissions in place, means with our key delivery partners. It means having the that we know that once we start we will be right industrial relations and a spirit of partnership able to finish without delay and with minimal with our trade unions. Underpinning all of this complications. We are using technology in order will be a consistent set of expectations on values to help us to do this. 4D design involves taking the and behaviours for everyone on site, whichever engineering designs and building 3D computerised company they work for and whatever their role.