Meet The KDPs

PPP and its supply chain play a critical role in helping Sellafield Ltd meet its aims of creating a clean and safe environment for future generations. Working under the Project 13 ethos provides an honest, structured and collaborative approach to our work, providing full alignment of the whole supply chain to meet the desired outcomes.

Implementation of the PPP supply chain strategy has created a number of long-term frameworks between the Lot Partners and the supply chain for works, services and goods that are common across the portfolio of projects – this is know as our Multi-Project Procurements (MPPs). The MPPs consist of two broad categories of framework: Key Delivery Partners (KDPs) and traditional Goods Supply Frameworks, Works Frameworks and Service Frameworks (GSAs).

KDPs are long-term supply chain partners that will deliver common construction elements such as civils, steelwork, mechanical, electrical, HVAC and other trades packages. The intent of the model is to create exclusive frameworks for the maximum available duration (up to 18 years) and reflect the profit-for-performance ethos of PPP. The KDP model has been developed as part of PPP’s supply chain strategy in order to meet the enterprise objectives and Critical Success Factors. The KDP model will create long term, strategic, outcome-based supply chain relationships.

Similarly, the GSAs are term-based frameworks but they do not have the same durations are the KDP frameworks – typically these would have three to five year durations. GSAs include areas such as manufacture and fabrication.

A large volume of work will therefore be contracted direct from the KDPs and the GSAs through their respective frameworks, although there are some specialist packages of work that will be directly procured through the various Lot Partners. A full list of the KDPs and GSAs are detailed below.