Economic Evaluation of Bids for Nuclear Power Plants

This report is an update of Technical Reports Series No. 269, Economic Evaluation of Bids for Nuclear Power Plants; A Guidebook (1986). It contains information, advice and recommendations on the different principles, methods and guidelines which should be used and applied when conducting an economic evaluation of nuclear power plant bids. Annex I lists an improved IAEA cost account system for nuclear power plants. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Outline of the complete bid evaluation process and description of the economic bid evaluation; 3. Contract approaches; 4. Basis for the economic bid evaluation; 5. Evaluation methods; 6. Sources of financing, financing proposals and aspects of the economic evaluation of financing proposals; 7. Implementation of the economic bid evaluation; 8. Technology transfer; Appendix I: Further considerations on evaluation methods; Appendix II: List of typical bid documentation