Costain has been awarded a £75m five-year contract to continue delivering nuclear services for EDF in the UK.
Costain has been given another five years of supplying project controls services to EDF’s eight nuclear power stations across the UK.
Costain has been working with EDF since 2017, when it was first named on EDF’s project controls resources framework to support the safe operation, plant life extension and preparations for the defueling and decommissioning of EDF’s UK nuclear power stations. The extension of the framework, which is worth £75m to Costain over five years, will take the partnership through to 2030. The framework was previously extended in 2021 and 2023.
Costain will provide specialist capabilities to improve project performance, deliver cost efficiencies and support strategic resource planning. It will also support EDF on its transition from generation to defueling of advanced gas reactors.
Costain has 170 staff working on more than 400 projects on the framework.
The framework extension comes amid a purple patch for Costain in the nuclear energy sector. It recently secured contracts to deliver utilities infrastructure upgrades at Sellafield and decommissioning work at Trawsfynydd nuclear power station in North Wales.
Earlier this year it was also awarded contracts to provide expertise for the construction of Sizewell C and to design Urenco’s advanced nuclear fuels production facility in Cheshire.