SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Aging System Analyses
- Notice Date
- 6/27/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- 1551 Hillshire Drive, Suite A, Las Vegas, NV
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- DE-RQ28-05RW12345
- Response Due
- 7/8/2005
- Archive Date
- 8/7/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being accepted. 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 whose 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 (DOE) is required to develop a repository for the disposal of 70,000 MTHM (metric tons of heavy metal) of radioactive waste in the form of commercial spent nuclear fuel (CSNF), DOE-owned spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste (HLW). DOE???s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (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). 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. Technical basis reviews and analyses are 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. These reviews 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: 1) An Operational Performance Report describing how the currently licensed casks/modules meet or could meet the operational performance objectives in Table 4-1 (attached) including the technical basis supporting the performance, as well as engineering calculations and analyses and, 2) An Environmental and External Event Report describing how the overall performance of currently licensed casks/modules meet or could meet the Yucca Mountain site-specific environmental and external hazard events in Table 4-2 (attached) including the technical basis supporting the performance, as well as engineering calculations and analyses. Additional analyses deemed necessary will be requested on a task order basis under this contract. Minimum Mandatory Requirements: DOE will only consider award to contractors who have developed storage cask systems that have been certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under 10 CFR Part 72. Questions/Comments: Questions/comments must be received through the IIPS web site no later than July 1, 2005. Submission of quotations by means other IIPS is not authorized. Acquisition Procedures: This acquisition will be conducted using Simplified Acquisition Procedures in accordance with FAR Parts 12 and 13.
- Web Link
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(https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/busopor.nsf/UNID/450261DF70E8729F8525702D00599339?OpenDocument)
- Record
- SN00836969-W 20050629/050627211746 (fbodaily.com)
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