SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Overview/Aging System
- Notice Date
- 3/9/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- 1551 Hillshire Drive, Suite A, Las Vegas, NV; P.O. Box 364629, M/S 523 North Las Vegas, NV 89036-8629
- ZIP Code
- 89036-8629
- Solicitation Number
- DE-RQ28-05RW12336
- Response Due
- 3/16/2005
- Archive Date
- 4/15/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM), intends to award multiple firm fixed price purchase orders to contractors??? quotations are determined to provide the best value to the government. Description: Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA), the United States Department of Energy is required to develop a repository for the disposal of approximately 70,000 MTHM (metric tons of heavy metal) of radioactive waste in the form of commercial spent nuclear fuel (CSNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW). DOE???s OCRWM is responsible for the development of the repository and for the transportation of all designated CSNF and HLW from commercial utilities and DOE sites to the repository. Upon receiving construction authorization from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the OCRWM will begin constructing a Monitored Geologic Repository (MGR) at Yucca Mountain on the Nevada Test Site (NTS) with operations scheduled to begin in 2010. The MGR will be regulated in accordance with 10 CFR 63. Part of the national inventory of CSNF expected to be delivered to Yucca Mountain will have a thermal output that exceeds the current limit for immediate emplacement. Consequently, CSNF that exceeds the thermal limit for emplacement will need to be aged at Yucca Mountain to allow its heat output to decay. The DOE is considering aging CSNF in currently licensed commercial vertical cask (casks may include canisters) systems and horizontal storage (aging) modules. These casks and modules may require design modifications to satisfy Yucca Mountain site-specific requirements. These commercial systems are presently certified to 10 CFR Part 72. A technical basis review is necessary to compare performance of casks licensed under 10 CFR 72 to Yucca Mountain site-specific hazards and their ability to comply with the requirements of 10 CFR 63. This review shall include, but not be limited to, engineering calculations and analyses of criticality, shielding, structural, containment (per the 10 CFR 63.2 definition), and thermal performance of the currently licensed casks. Also included shall be the results/consequences of any cask tip over or slap-down analysis. This scope of work contains information to be used to prepare a letter report that describes the adaptability of currently licensed casks for aging purposes. Minimum Mandatory Requirements: DOE will only consider award to contractors who have successfully designed spent nuclear fuel storage casks in accordance to 10 CFR 72, and who have received Certificates of Compliance from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Questions/Comments: Questions/comments must be received through the IIPS web site no later than March 15, 2005 . Submission of quotations by means other IIPS is not authorized. Acquisition Procedures: This acquisition will be conducted using SAP in accordance with FAR Parts 12 and 13.
- Web Link
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(https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/busopor.nsf/UNID/C71611A5D8B340E585256FBF0064FA7D?OpenDocument)
- Record
- SN00765331-W 20050311/050309211708 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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