SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Radiological Emergency Preparedness exercise support
- Notice Date
- 6/16/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541618
— Other Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- DHS - Emergency Preparedness and Response, Federal Emergency Management Agency, NETC Acquisition Section, 16825 South Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, MD, 21727
- ZIP Code
- 21727
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-HSFEEM-05-R-REP3
- Response Due
- 6/30/2005
- Archive Date
- 7/15/2005
- Description
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) intends on issuing a sole source contract modification under EME-2001-CO-0001 with ICF Incorporated, 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22031 to increase the level of effort for the period of approximately July 1, 2005 though September 30, 2005 for increased Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) exercise support. The subject contract includes a tasking to provide REP offsite exercise support in accordance with the Standard Exercise Report Format (SERF), 44 CFR 350-344, site specific plans, and other REP related regulations, policies, and procedures. This contractor support is needed to ensure FEMA can accomplish its Congressional mandate to provide the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public living around commercial nuclear power plants is being maintained. In meeting this mandate FEMA conducts evaluations of 30 to 35 exercises of site-specific offsite radiological emergency preparedness plans annually and an additional 10 to 20 remedial drills. About 60 to 100 additional medical, rehearsal and other out-of sequence drills are also evaluated per year. Full scale REP exercises may require up to 50 or more contractor evaluators per exercise. Concurrent full scale exercises (in separate FEMA Regions) are anticipated. Contractor provided evaluators are needed due shortfalls in available Federal evaluators. There is a need to increase the current level of effort of contractor provided exercise support since other Federal departments and agencies that assist with exercises have reduced the level of REP evaluator support provided to FEMA due to budgetary constraints and competing priorities. This increased level of support is for approximately for 4,000 to 4,500 of additional exercise evaluator hours during the period of July 1, 2005 through September 30, 2005. Pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements, the Contracting Officer has determined that ICF is the only known source that possesses the required staffing, resources, and experience to provide the additional level of support through September 30, 2005. ICF is the only known source that has the requisite staffing of fully qualified REP exercise evaluators that have completed the mandatory FEMA training. Any other contractor would have to recruit and train a pool of evaluators sufficient to meet the scheduled exercises during this period. ICF is currently required to maintain pool of 130 evaluators with appropriate ranges of technical expertise to ensure that staffing requirements for exercises can be met at any given time. Any other contractor would also have to obtain the mandatory FEMA provided on-the-job and classroom training for their proposed evaluators. All REP evaluators must successfully complete on-the-job training by performing evaluator duties under the surveillance of a FEMA evaluator at one FEMA-graded REP exercise and complete the REP Evaluator Course, REP Planning Course, and the REP Accident Assessment Course prior serving as an evaluator. The contractor will also be required to develop and implement a comprehensive organization conflict of interest (OCI) plan to ensure no proposed evaluators pose a conflict of interest to exercise findings. The contractor is also required to develop and use an on-line work order tracking system to track costs necessary to assess user fees from NRC licenses of commercial nuclear power plants. ICF already has an OCI plan and an on-line work order tracking system in-place that can be used for the scope of this modification. FEMA anticipates releasing a competitive request for proposal (RFP) for these services during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2005 with estimated award in November 2005. Offerors interested in this requirement will have an opportunity to submit a proposal for the follow-on requirement once the RFP is issued. No solicitation documentation exists. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, vendors may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. Capability statements are due by June 30, 2005.
- Record
- SN00830846-W 20050618/050616211552 (fbodaily.com)
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