US-based Amentum has won a suite of new contracts from Électricité de France (EDF) worth up to $730m extending the services it already provides for the UK’s operating nuclear reactors as well as construction of the Hinkley Point C NPP.
Amentum has a Lifetime Enterprise Agreement with EDF, signed in 2015, to provide strategic, long-term technical solutions for EDF’s UK nuclear fleet including licensing, design and construction, modelling and analysis solutions, and laboratory and engineering test facilities. This work has enabled EDF to achieve an aggregate 38 years of life extension across the seven advanced gas-cooled reactor stations.
The new contracts comprise: ten-year Professional Services Agreement frameworks with Hinkley Point C; EDF Nuclear Operations and EDF Nuclear Services to support the Hinkley Point C new build programme, operating stations and their engineering capability hub; and a five-year Project Management Resources framework to support station operations, life extension and preparation for decommissioning.
“This award advances our strategy to accelerate the growth of our nuclear energy business in line with the opportunities being created by the worldwide nuclear resurgence, said Loren Jones, Senior Vice President and head of Amentum’s Energy & Environment-International business. “Amentum will deploy the skills and experience of more than 1,000 UK-based specialists to provide the full breadth of nuclear skills, solutions, and products essential to the continued operation and life extension of the UK’s existing nuclear fleet.
He added: “A further 300 Amentum colleagues are already delivering multi-disciplinary roles across Hinkley Point C under the Professional Services Agreement. We expect this number to grow as these new contracts mature, strengthening our position to support long-term operations once the reactors come online.”
Mark Whitney, president of Amentum’s Energy & Environment business, added: “These new contracts build on Amentum’s differentiated position as a lead strategic partner to EDF and advance an immensely productive business relationship that dates back many decades.”
With more than 6,000 people in the UK, Amentum is the delivery partner for programme, project and construction management services at Hinkley Point C; sole programme and project management delivery partner at Sizewell C; and also supports the UK’s existing nuclear power stations. It is a major supplier of engineering design, safety case and project management at Sellafield and other UK nuclear decommissioning sites and operates the country’s largest private sector complex of nuclear laboratories and engineering test facilities in Warrington.
