DOE Seeking Small Business Teams for Protective Force Services at Nevada Site
The Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking a small business or small business-led team, or joint venture sources to perform protective force services at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), the Remote Sensing Laboratory, and the North Las Vegas Complex that includes the National Nuclear Security Administration headquarters at the site, according to a solicitation posted last week. The protective force, which secures nuclear material, equipment, classified information, and personnel, is authorized to include 180 security police officers and 24 duty officers, the solicitation said.
The contract is expected to be a fixed price/time and materials hybrid-type contract for five years, worth approximately $270 million, DOE said. The solicitation estimates that a request for proposals will be released in the third quarter of fiscal 2016. Interested parties must submit a statement of capability via email to Justin Burgess at [email protected] by March 16.
DNFSB: Metrics Table to Replace Full DOE Criticality Safety Report
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is modifying its nuclear criticality safety annual reporting requirement to allow the Department of Energy (DOE) to submit an annual metrics table instead of a full report on criticality safety at defense nuclear facilities. In a Feb. 26 letter to Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, DNFSB Chairman Joyce Connery said that to minimize the administrative burden of creating a full report, the requirement for the DOE’s nuclear criticality safety program would be an annual metrics table – and briefing – that encompasses the number of criticality safety infractions at each site, the number of contractor-identified noncompliances with facility safety standards, the number of criticality safety assessments conducted, criticality safety staffing levels, and DOE’s assessment of contractor performance on criticality safety. The letter said the DOE’s fiscal 2015 annual metrics table and briefing is due to the DNFSB by April 1.
