Mike Nartker
WC Monitor
9/12/2014
The Department of Energy is moving forward with competing the first of four planned cleanup contracts for the Idaho site, announcing this week that a draft Request for Proposals for the new Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) Core contract is set to be released within the next 15-to-45 days. The ICP Core contract is intended to largely replace the two current cleanup contracts at the Idaho site that are set to end Sept. 30, 2015—CH2M-WG Idaho’s contract to perform most cleanup work at the site and Idaho Treatment Group’s contract to operate the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project. DOE also said this week that a pre-solicitation conference, site tour and industry one-on-one sessions for the procurement has been “tentatively scheduled” for the week of Oct. 6.
The new ICP Core contract is set to be competed on an unrestricted basis and is currently planned to be a cost-plus-incentive-fee-type with both CPIF and milestone fee. The new contract would run for five years, beginning Oct. 1, 2015, with no option periods. Work to be performed under the ICP Core contract will include EM facility infrastructure, environmental remediation, waste management and spent nuclear fuel surveillance, maintenance and stabilization. In its notice this week, DOE said, “Note that the Draft RFP also includes options to acquire additional scope elements as separately priced line items under this Contract. When deciding whether to exercise the option(s), DOE may consider the quality of the Contractor’s performance under this Contract, if sufficient funding is available, and whether the exercise of the option is the most advantageous method of fulfilling the Government’s need, price and other factors considered.” DOE currently plans to issue the final RFP for the new contract “late in the first quarter of Government fiscal year 2015,” and to award the new contract “in or about” the first quarter of FY 2016, according to the notice.
Along with the ICP Core contract, the other new contracts planned for the Idaho site include one that will also be competed on an unrestricted basis for the calcine disposition, which involves treating approximately 4,400 cubic meters of high-level waste to meet a commitment DOE has with the state of Idaho to have the material “road ready” for removal from the state by 2035. The contract would be an Architecture and Engineering Cost-Plus-Award-Fee-type, according to DOE. It would run from Oct. 1, 2015 to Sept. 30, 2024. DOE is also planning to set aside two contracts for small businesses. One would cover management-and-operation of Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed spent nuclear fuel facilities and would be a firm fixed price-type that would run for five years The other contract to be set-aside for small businesses would cover D&D and construction activities, including operation of the Idaho CERCLA disposal facility, interim cap construction at the Idaho tank farm and “strip-out” of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit, among other activities. The contract would run for five years, beginning Oct. 1, 2016; and would be a firm-fixed price-type with an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract line item number, according to DOE.
