- 338 - pursue its goal of gradually reducing the maximum doses delivered; deploy an action plan for increasing subcontractor participation in analysing and sharing experience feedback; define and implement social certification for the subcontracting companies. ASN will examine this report and decide on the relevant steps to be taken subsequently. 7.2 CEA Scope of activities concerned CEA stated that it calls in outside contractors to "provide services or perform work necessary for it to continue to carry out its duties and its activities or continue to function and for which it does not have the particular in-house skills necessary, or those which it does possess are not available when required for the envisaged mission". The scope of activity concerned by subcontracting varies according to the BNIs concerned. Depending on the BNI, it in particular covers maintenance of various equipment items, in-service monitoring of certain equipment items, design studies for projects and their modifications, project management for particular works, project ownership for particular works, quality monitoring of the facility, performance of safety analyses or quality control of subcontracted operations. Project management of clean-up/decommissioning operations on the ATPu (BNI 32) is performed by AREVA NC Cadarache. Furthermore, for design and construction activities concerning the Jules Horowitz reactor (JHR), CEA calls on specialist suppliers (engineering, industrial firms, construction and erection contractors). It would however seem that in some facilities, activities cannot be subcontracted. For example in BNI 39 (Masurca), "some skills specific to operation of the Masurca facility are not subcontracted (e.g. reactor operation, warehouse management, etc.)." Furthermore, no provision is made for Osiris (BNI 40) "to call on outside contractors for crisis management or accident situation recovery operations". Contractor selection procedures CEA states that "each service is the subject of specifications defining the unit's requirements, the conditions placed on awarding of the contract, the stipulated requirements, particularly with regard to safety, and the expected results". CEA also specifies that the methods chosen by the bidders to meet the safety obligations pursuant to the Labour Code (regarding occupational health and safety, in particular radiation protection) and the Defence Code (particularly regarding the protection and monitoring of nuclear materials) are part of the contractor selection criteria. CEA has two tools for preliminary evaluation of the suppliers: the supplier evaluation procedure consists in collecting data to identify "the characteristics of the contractors in the legal, financial, technical (areas of expertise, human and technical resources), organisational (quality, safety) and commercial (contracts concluded with CEA and with other customers) fields". The data collected enable an evaluation to be made of the work (services, supplies and works) done by the contractors under a contract, on the basis of technical conformity with the specifications, compliance with costs and deadlines, compliance with the regulations (environment, security, radiation protection and safety), provision of the documentation stipulated in the contract and the quality of customer service; for radioactive clean-up and decommissioning operations, the Acceptance Commission for Nuclear Site Clean-up Contractors (CAEAR) is a system for qualifying outside contractors. It is based on the contractor's professional experience, management of the contractor personnel's skills and how the subcontracting company takes account of safety and criticality, enabling CEA to make a "pre-selection of contractors on the basis of safety, technical expertise and operator competence criteria". Following the various steps in this arrangement, which in particular comprises an evaluation audit, acceptance may be given for a maximum of three years and for clearly defined fields. CEA stated that a review is currently being conducted on the possible extension of the fields concerned by CAEAR to include facility operations. The contracts are awarded on a best-bidder basis, consisting in "selecting the proposal which provides the best guarantees of satisfactory completion, while remaining economically advantageous, in other words, that which conforms most closely to its needs and which, at reasonable cost, is best able to meet the stipulated requirements,
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