The Department of Energy plans to hold a site tour next week for companies interested in bidding on the new contract to provide architect and engineering services for design of the Sludge Processing Facility Buildouts Project at the Oak Ridge Transuranic Waste Processing Center. The site tour is scheduled to be held April 3, and those companies interested in participating have until March 28 to register by email at AEEB@oro.doe.gov, according to a notice issued yesterday.
The Sludge Processing Facility Buildouts Project is intended to address approximately 2,000 cubic meters of remote-handled transuranic waste sludge and associated supernate. DOE is seeking a firm to design and build a test facility for the treatment systems to be used, as well as to complete the final design for the project and provide support during the construction and operational readiness review phase of the project. In a set of questions-and-answers issued yesterday, DOE provided more information on its plans for competing the contract. “SF 330s will be evaluated to determine the most highly qualified firm, in relation to architectural design and engineering services in support of sludge processing facilities, based on criterion responses. Discussions/interviews will then be held with at least three of the most highly qualified firms. A price proposal will then be requested and negotiations conducted beginning with the most preferred firm in the final selection,” DOE said.
DOE also yesterday issued an amendment to its pre-solicitation notice seeking Standard Form 330s from interested companies. Among other changes, the amendment allows interested companies to submit information on projects completed in the last 10 years to demonstrate specialized expertise, one of the four evaluation criteria to be used to consider submissions. DOE had previously sought information from projects completed in the last five years.