SOLICITATION NOTICE
H -- ATR OPERATIONS READINESS
- Notice Date
- 12/22/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- 850 Energy Drive (MS-1221) Idaho Falls, ID 83401-1563
- ZIP Code
- 83401-1563
- Solicitation Number
- DE-AP07-04ID00907
- Point of Contact
- Wade Hillebrant, Contracting Officer, 208-526-0547, hillebtw@id.doe.gov;Elizabeth Dahl, Contract Specialist, 208-526-7214, dahlee@id.doe.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Elizabeth Dahl, Contract Specialist
(dahlee@id.doe.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Energy intends to conduct an acquisition by means other than full and open competition. The anticipated sole source acquisition is to Polestar Applied Technology, Inc. (PATI). The contract will be fixed price and is estimated at approximately $53,500 for a period of two months. PATI will assist DOE in the review of the INEELs? management and operations contractor plans for the continued safe operation of the Advanced Test Reactor at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. A summary technical description and overview of the INEEL and the ATR may be found at http://www.inel.gov/facilities/tra.shtml. The work will require a specific assessment in the following areas: Task 1 - Assess the NE-ID management and operations contractor developed plan, determine if the plan is technically sound, and has properly considered short and long-term risks in the planning assumptions and analyses. Task 2 - Review the cost estimate basis for the plan. Task 3 - Assess whether the issues have been categorized as to the risk to overall health and safety of the workers and/or risk to the continued operation of the ATR. Task 4 - Assess the NE-DC and NE-ID oversight effectiveness of ATR operations. The team should review DOE headquarters and field oversight of the ATR for purposes of determining effectiveness of the oversight and safety assessment approval processes and outcomes. The scope of the review should include oversight process adequacy, oversight process implementation success, and issues identification and relationship of the NE field personnel to the contractor. The task deliverable will be a report sub-divided into three areas - any immediate threat to the health and safety of the worker or continued operation of the reactor, mandatory items that needed to resolved in the next two years and discretionary issues. PATI has the required experience and capability in both management and oversight of nuclear facility operations, treatment, handling and storage of spent nuclear fuel and related wastes, and technical conflict resolution between government personnel, contractors, and subcontractors. PATI?S work will ensure that ATR maintains its essential scientific and engineering capacity in the research and development area of safe and effective reactor operations. PATI?s work will ensure that DOE headquarters and field oversight of the ATR is effective. This review will ensure the effectiveness of the oversight and safety assessment approval processes, adequate oversight process implementation, and identify issues with the relationship of the NE field personnel and the contractor. PATI personnel have extensive experience and capability based on prior work with the U.S. Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office, dealing with investigation and resolution of technical conflicts between the government, contractors, and subcontractors, and transition of Hanford?s inventory of spent nuclear fuels to safe interim storage. PATI?s personnel also have extensive experience in providing engineering support for Naval nuclear prototype reactor plants, providing engineering design support for submarine reactor plant fluid and electrical systems, and providing support in staffing analysis and engineering support to Naval shipyards to ensure safe reactor plant testing and operations while minimizing disruptive delays and potential for cost overruns. The exception to competition is 10 US.C 2304(c)(3) ? Industrial mobilization; engineering, developmental, or research capability; or expert services. This is not a notice of availability of a solicitation ? there is no RFP available. Only sources believing they have the requisite capability may respond with a capability statement. Any statements received will be reviewed only to determine if the basis for a sole source procurement no longer exists and the acquisition should then proceed on a competitive basis. Responses must be received no later than January 5, 2004. Point of contact is T. Wade Hillebrant, Contracting Officer.
- Web Link
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Click here for further details regarding this notice.
(https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/busopor.nsf/UNID/D7BF166C11B8C9C085256E0400768413?OpenDocument)
- Record
- SN00494144-W 20031224/031222211810 (fbodaily.com)
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