3. If HPC were to adopt a sourcing strategy with a preference for local SMEs:

(a) How might it engage effectively with local businesses to encourage bids????

(b) How might it effectively configure these sourcing arrangements????

(c) What approaches might it take to supplier capability development???? It was a warm afternoon as Stefano Moretto, Commercial Director of Hinkley Point C (HPC), and Eva Glines, Senior Supply Chain Engagement Manager, stood looking out of their office. Stefano, having recently joined EDF, had been tasked with establishing a supply network for the recently approved HPC project – the first of a number of new nuclear power stations aimed at supporting the United Kingdom (UK) Government’s intended ambition of creating a ‘clean, safe and affordable’ energy future.

EDF and the Hinkley Point C (HPC) project As with many other projects that the two had worked on, HPC would be complex and EDF would be right at the centre of things. The firm would hold detailed knowledge of the power station’s design, maintain codes and standards, contribute to the design process at a strategic level and ensure the execution of the detailed design at an operational level. Over the coming years, EDF and its partners would need to build, test and commission two massive reactors, turbine halls and an electricity substation on the site, located in the South-West of the UK. Managing construction would involve people from many different organisations and disciplines working alongside each other.

It would be EDF’s responsibility to ensure that all relationships were underpinned by a consistent set of values and behaviours. However, at that moment, Stefano and Eva were preoccupied with another piece of the jigsaw – the site operations services.