The Department of Energy on Monday issued a request for proposals for the next Nevada Environmental Program Services contract, which could be worth up to $350 million over 10 years.
Navarro Research and Engineering holds the current $80 million contract, which began in March 2015 and runs through January 2020.
The RFP for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract and task orders will be 100% set-aside for small businesses of 750 employees or less, DOE said. Details can be found on the procurement website.
Because the contract is based on task orders, the guaranteed minimum under the contract is only $500,000. The fee amounts for will be negotiated for each individual task order based on risk and complexity, which could partly account for the sizable potential boost to the contract value.
The department issued its draft RFP for environmental work at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site in July 2018 and conducted an industry day for prospective vendors the following month.
The incumbent and nearly 40 other parties attended the session, including: Los Alamos Technical Associates, Pro2Serve, Leidos, Veolia Nuclear Solutions-Federal Services, Longenecker & Associates, AECOM, and Atkins. Large companies sometimes serve as minority partners in joint ventures led by smaller companies that meet the requirements to be designated a small business.
Any questions on the RFP should be sent by July 30 to [email protected]. Proposals are due Aug. 21. Offerors must submit proposals electronically through FedConnect.
The winning bidder should produce measurable results toward completion of the DOE Office of Environmental Management remediation at the Nevada National Security Site by accomplishing the maximum amount of environmental work within the 10-year ordering period.
The selected firm will conduct characterization, deactivation and decommissioning (D&D), soil remediation for industrial sites. The vendor will oversee the Radioactive Waste Acceptance Program (RWAP) to ensure generators of low-level waste or mixed waste comply with the NNSS waste acceptance criteria. The Nevada site disposal facility accepts waste from 25 DOE-approved generator sites across the nation.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management contractor is also responsible for remediation work on the Nevada Test and Training Range and the Tonopah Test Range, which were contaminated during nuclear testing operations.
The contractor is responsible for managing all Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board meetings.
Bidders should outline their overall technical and management approach in a document not to exceed 25 pages, according to the instructions to bidders.
The bidder should identify a program manager who will be interviewed by the Energy Department. The vendor can list additional key people beside the program manager.
There is a 60-day transition period to the new contractor, according to the performance work statement.
The Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), formerly known as the Nevada Test Site, was home for decades to full-scale atmospheric and underground nuclear testing. The last test was conducted in 1992.
Separately, the Energy Department said this week it has completed corrective actions and closed the last of 138 soil sites at the NNSS. Crews began the remediation work along a 6,000-acre stretch of the facility in 2007.
