SOURCES SOUGHT
S -- Waste Management and Laboratory Support Services
- Notice Date
- 10/11/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 562111
— Solid Waste Collection
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory (DOE Contractor), Argonne, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL, 60439
- ZIP Code
- 60439
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-5-EP65-I-00001-00
- Response Due
- 10/22/2004
- Archive Date
- 11/5/2004
- Description
- The University of Chicago, as the M&O contractor at the Argonne National Laboratory, seeks to identify responsible potential sources and obtain information with respect to their ability to provide waste management and/or laboratory support services to tenants of the Argonne National Laboratory ? East (ANL-E) site in DuPage County, Illinois. ANL-E conducts basic and technology-directed research on a 1,500-acre campus located about 25 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois. Major facilities at the site include the Advanced Photon Source; the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source; the Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System; and the Electron Microscopy Center. Researchers from outside the laboratory use all of these facilities extensively. ANL-E also has the full spectrum of administrative and technical support organizations, as well as DOE?s Chicago Operations Office and the New Brunswick Laboratory, both of which use facilities operated and maintained by ANL-E. ANL-E currently houses approximately 4,800 persons, including employees of DOE, contractors and other guests. An additional 2,200 individuals visit the site each year to use the research facilities. ANL-E includes 101 buildings with approximately 4.6 million total square feet of floor space, half of which is used by DOE Office of Science research programs. PROCESS: In order to minimize costs, both to potentially interested parties and the University of Chicago, this notice is being issued to determine the interest and feasibility of proceeding with a formal request for proposals. Should insufficient credible interest be identified for this action, it is highly likely that no formal solicitation will be issued. SHOULD INTEREST BE DETERMINED SUFFICIENT, A FORMAL REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS MAY BE FORTHCOMING. The Service Contract Act (SCA) will apply to any request for proposals issued. This requirement is unrestricted. Small Business interests should note the FAR Part 19 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes and Size Standards (SS) for the waste management and laboratory support services identified in this announcement. Some, all, or any combination of the following may apply: NAICS/SS: 5621/$10.5M, 5622/$10.5M, 5629/$12.0M. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this RFI is to determine whether there is interest on the part of potential suppliers in providing waste management and laboratory support services to ANL-E. Services provided will adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, and DOE orders and directives. DESCRIPTION: Waste management operations support the scientific mission of ANL-E by ensuring the safe collection, treatment, storage and disposal of all regulated wastes generated at the site. Requirement includes providing labor, materials, vehicles, equipment, and supplies needed to complete work activities. Requirement is to establish, carryout, and/or provide for hazardous and radioactive materials characterization, certification and verification. Requirement includes managing a waste certification program capable of shipping waste to off-site treatment and disposal facilities. Requirement may include management of non-reactor nuclear facilities and radiological facilities. Work activities include the collection, treatment, storage, packaging, and off-site disposal of waste generated at the ANL-E site. Examples of the type of waste and materials include: radioactive and contaminated materials (alpha, beta, gamma, and neutron /contact handled, remote handled); materials, asbestos; lead; mercury; beryllium; cadmium; PCBs; organics; and miscellaneous other hazardous and mixed waste streams. Program elements include: forecasting (internal/external), budgeting, manifesting, and inventory management. Requirement includes maintaining a safety program that includes health physics (HP), industrial hygiene (IP), OSHA safety, and criticality safety elements necessary to be in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. This requirement includes providing HP/IH program administration and field support activities as necessary to demonstrate compliance. Waste services are divided into 2 areas: Waste Management and Laboratory Support Services. 1. Waste Management A. Newly Generated Waste - total annual waste volumes vary. Waste volumes include the following waste stream types and approximate annual volumes. Requirements also include site wide spill response (~40 spills occurred in FY2004). TSCA, Illinois Special, Non-Special Wastes and Universal Hazardous Wastes Generated annually at the site: 25,000 gallons Chemical Hazardous Waste (CHW): 6,820 gallons - 70% of this waste is drummed, 24% lab packed, 6% bulked and the rest handled on a case by case basis. Low-Level Radioactive Waste (LLW): 24,170 gallons - 1% is high activity LLW remote handled, and 10% is bulk aqueous LLW. Mixed Waste (MW): 3,243 gallons - 22% is corrosive, 5% is aqueous sludge hazardous/chemical waste, and 73% debris. Transuranic Waste (TRU): 367 gallons ? 50% is corrosive contact handled, 10% Remote Handled Debris, and 40% contact handled debris. Filter Waste: Requirement includes removal and replacement of filters across the site (247 pre-filters, 61 HEPA filters, and 75 perchloric filters), purchasing, and maintenance of the site inventory. B. Legacy Waste ? requirement includes disposing of stored legacy low-level and mixed wastes. Typical waste types include, but are not limited to, RCRA residual sludges, biological, radioactive sources, organic liquids, mixed waste, lead, and uranium tetrafluoride. 2. Laboratory Support Services A. Laboratory Support Program Activities: Work scope includes providing sitewide remediation services such as decontamination, decommissioning, and demolition of equipment and facilities. Work activities typically involve remediating one or more of the following materials: lead, beryllium, mercury, asbestos, and various radionuclides. Work may also include activities within DOE nuclear facilities as well as activities required to close RCRA permitted areas. B. Health Physics Support to Operations: The contractor shall provide full health physics program support and resources to ANL Divisions that report directly to the Chief Operating Officer (7 Divisions total). This support is in addition to the waste management and lab support service program support. Requirement includes all resources required to implement the requirements of 10CFR835 and site specific policies and procedures. Requirement to provide HP support during emergency exercises and actual emergencies. Waste management and lab support service operations may be performed in ANL-E provided facilities. All areas include, but are not limited to, some combination of the following functions: collection, treatment, storage and disposal of all newly generated and legacy regulated wastes waste characterization, generator assistance, waste approvals, and job planning (including radiological work planning as necessary) technical response to site emergencies, waste contract maintenance, familiarity and application of TSDF waste acceptance criteria Tracking waste containers and associated inventories to ensure compliance with regulations (e.g., RCRA Part B permit, etc.) Performing compliance driven and other inspections and preparing annual and other reports including ORPs, PAAA, and incident reporting work within confined spaces, elevated spaces, scaffolding, excavations, supplied air environments, beryllium, cadmium, heat/cold stress environments, lead base paint removal, and miscellaneous lead and cadmium dust clean-up nuclear facility safety program management including criticality safety program remediation project support, contaminated equipment and media removal, clean-up/demolition projects, hazardous materials abatement and industrial hygiene support providing trained personnel, supplies, shipping containers and other materials (Note: Permitted storage facilities, vehicles, and offices and buildings may be government furnished.) use of on-site treatment and volume reduction equipment or providing these services off-site testing waste streams and HEPA filters verifying, certifying, or obtaining certification of disposal or treatment of waste reporting of incidents (e.g., PAAA, ORPS, etc.) and performing incident investigations including root cause determinations, corrective action plan development, and corrective action closure RESPONSE: Interested parties should provide a Statement of Interest on company letterhead (not to exceed 20 pages in length, printed on one side only, and double-spaced). The statement should include as a minimum the following criteria: (1) capability and experience in waste management and/or laboratory support services; (2) financial capacity to mobilize and provide the specified services; (3) conceptual plan (excluding numerical analysis or proposed rates) for recovering O&M costs; (4) statement detailing your familiarity, understanding and experience with federal, state, and local occupational safety, environmental laws and regulations (including the US Department of Energy, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations); and (6) business size: large, small, small-disadvantage, 8(a), women-owned. In addition to information provided by your statement of interest, Past Performance information must be provided in order to receive any formal request for proposals that may be issued. Submit not more than five references for similar contracts that have a one-year or more performance period and that are active or that were completed within the past three years. Relevant contracts include similar contract types, similar contract environments and services that are considered to be similar in scope, magnitude and complexity when compared to the projected requirements described in this notice. Each reference must include a current point of contact with valid phone number for both contractual and technical disciplines, contract value, and type of contract and period of performance, with a narrative description of the products/services provided by your firm. Experience needs to reflect work performed by your firm and not by a subcontractor. Offerors that are newly formed entities without prior contracts should list contracts as required above for all key personnel. Elaborate proposals or pricing information is neither required nor desired. Under no circumstances will cost data for the existing services be provided. Innovative and new conceptual ideas and approaches to achieve the stated objectives are encouraged. If a site visit and the provision of additional data are later determined necessary, notification will be provided in the formal solicitation for proposals. Send Statement of Interest and Past Performance information to Ed Porlier, Procurement Dept., Building 201, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4873 no later than 2:00 p.m., local time, October 22, 2004.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL
- Zip Code: 60439
- Country: United States
- Zip Code: 60439
- Record
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