Alissa Tabirian
NS&D Monitor
9/18/2015
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking feedback on its contract evaluation criteria from potential bidders for management and operation of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), according to a special notice released this week. The announcement requests feedback from “prospective Offerors” by Sept. 21 on several draft documents that include award evaluation factors, the NNSS statement of work, and a past performance cover letter and questionnaire.
The announcement highlights two distinct options for criteria used to assess past contractor performance, one of which will be used in a final solicitation. The first option for addressing past performance of bidders notes that the government will credit parent companies equally, whether the assessment is positive or negative, according to the draft document. In the second option, parent companies are equally credited for past performance except in cases in which the bidder “provides an executed scope agreement signed by all parent companies for that contract that clearly and unambiguously identifies the scope for which each parent company was/is responsible.”
The past performance questionnaire, another document released for comment, includes questions about the contractor’s ability to “manage nuclear facilities, experiments and operations” and “adhere to delivery schedules/response times/cost estimates/budgets.” It also asks whether the contractor received “any criminal or civil penalties, fines or administrative actions, such as a consent order.”
The NNSA expects to release a request for proposals for a new NNSS management and operation contract, with a five-year base period and five-year option period, by the end of the month. National Security Technologies’ contract to manage the facility expires in September 2016.
