Mark Tami – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Tami on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority made of the performance on previous and existing Nuclear Decommissioning Authority programmes when awarding ownership of shares in Magnox Ltd and Research Sites Restoration Ltd on 31 March 2014.

Michael Fallon

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is responsible for running the competition for a new parent body for Magnox Ltd and Research Sites Restoration Limited using the Competitive Dialogue procedure, under which the evaluation must identify the Most Economically Advantageous Tender measured against agreed evaluation criteria. Each consortium’s capability and expertise was assessed during the pre-qualification process; this included but was not limited to experience on NDA programmes. It would have been contrary to UK and EU procurement regulations to have made experience on NDA programmes an evaluation criterion in the bidding process.