The U.S. Energy Department’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center on Thursday posted a draft request for proposals (RFP) for a contract potentially worth $3 billion for nationwide deactivation, decommissioning, and removal services.
The Energy Department is issuing a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, using firm-fixed-price or cost-reimbursement task orders over a 10-year period.
Comments are due on the draft RFP by Oct. 4. A presolicitation conference, tour, and one-on-one informational meetings are also scheduled for Sept. 24-26 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Details on registration for the events are also available here.
Registration for the presolicitation conference, tour, and meetings will close at 3 p.m. ET on Sept. 12. Questions can also be directed to DOE Contracting Officer Mike McCreanor, at [email protected].
The draft RFP arrived just a few weeks after DOE rolled out a sources sought/request for information notice on the national deactivation, decommissioning, and removal work. Information collected through the draft RFP process will help the Energy Department develop a final procurement notice.
Solicitation materials note that the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act included a plan for deactivation and decommissioning of hundreds of nonoperating national nuclear facilities.
In January 2015, the energy secretary established the Excess Contaminated Facilities Working Group. Also, in early 2015, the Energy Department’s Office of Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office issued reports on how high-risk excess facilities are overseen – particularly those expected to be transferred to DOE’s Office of Environmental Management.
Subsequently, in May of this year, then-Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management Anne Marie White signed a memorandum of agreement giving the cleanup office the job of deactivation, decommissioning, and remediation of facilities owned by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Naval Reactors.
The memo, co-signed by National Naval Nuclear Propulsion Director James Caldwell, says the program currently has about $2.5 billion worth of environmental liabilities. The document also notes the DOE Office of Environmental Management has significant expertise in cleanup.
