The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking potential providers capable of offering technical support on data for infrastructure cost and construction and maintenance estimates, according to a sources sought notice posted last week.
The notice said NNSA is interested in businesses with experience in providing building construction and sustainment cost data; developing federal infrastructure building models to help calculate replacement plant value costs; and providing software to calculate construction, sustainment, and demolition cost estimates. The agency said it would use this tool to develop site-level cost projections, craft preventive maintenance schedules, and estimate predictive maintenance costs at least two years into the future.
The work will support NNSA’s Office of Safety Infrastructure and Operations, which uses the infrastructure planning and management software system BUILDER. The notice said this system is used to “provide a single, rules-based approach to inform capital infrastructure renewal decisions based on current and predicted system conditions, NNSA mission priorities, and acceptable risk tolerance levels.”
In May, NNSA announced it had populated all building inventory and condition information for its eight sites into the BUILDER system, which involved over 225,000 data points on the inventory and condition of the agency’s property. The agency plans to fully implement the system in 2018.
NNSA is now conducting market research to identify qualifying companies for infrastructure costing data support, with a special interest in small businesses, according to the notice. Similar work is not currently being performed under any existing agency contract, it said.
Interested parties must submit a capability statement of no more than three pages by 4 p.m. Eastern time on July 18 via fedconnect.net.
