- 335 - contractor working conditions. Each site also has its own "contractor" database with data supplied from a general information sheet for each contractor and from evaluation sheets drawn up following the performance of work. This database is used for pre-selection of the contractors (or a priori evaluation) when the site has to place an order or a contract. It would however appear that there is no pooling of the site's databases, in particular for the evaluation of contractors intervening nationwide throughout France. It should be noted that among the contractors, AREVA identifies those it considers to be "strategic", who are the subject of particularly close monitoring: contractors performing work with an impact on safety, security, health, radiation protection or environmental aspects; contractors performing work entailing a proven technical risk; contracting representing a proven financial risk (turnover, degree of dependency); contractors representing a proven legal risk (monopoly situation, etc.). The contractor selection process is common to all the entities of the AREVA group: the buyer (in other words the site Buying department) and the client (that is the site department which needs the service) evaluate the replies to the calls for bids or requests for orders, on the basis of a table of technical choices involving the following criteria: the contractor's compliance with its undertakings during previous contracts placed with the site; conformity with the specifications; the quality of compliance with safety, security, health, radiation protection and environmental requirements; the lead-times and schedule proposed in conformity with the requirements of the client; dosimetry optimisation (when this criterion is applicable); optimisation of the waste generated (when this criterion is applicable). These are supplemented by commercial selection criteria, which are usually the following: the total amount of the bid; the costs breakdown; the quality of the commercial proposal; the contractor's degree of dependency. Some sites also apply a criterion regarding the long-term stability of the contractor. The contractor selection criteria presented above naturally take account of both technical and commercial aspects of the responses proposed by the candidates for the contracts. However: there is no clear criterion regarding management of several cascaded subcontracting tiers; during the course of previous inspections, ASN often observed that commercial criteria could carry more weight than technical criteria in the final selection. Steps taken to ensure satisfactory intervention conditions for outside contractors In its CSAs, ASN asked AREVA to describe the steps taken to ensure satisfactory intervention conditions for the outside contractors and to describe the organisation put into place for the radiation protection of their workers.
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