SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- ASSISTANCE WITH REVIEW AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSES OF SPENT FUEL CASK AND PACKAGE DESIGNS PURSUANT TO 10 CFR PARTS 71 AND 72
- Notice Date
- 4/29/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Administration, Division of Contracts, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, Maryland, 20852-2738, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20852-2738
- Solicitation Number
- NRC-41-11-001-SS
- Archive Date
- 5/17/2011
- Point of Contact
- Valerie M. Whipple, Phone: 301-492-3628
- E-Mail Address
-
valerie.whipple@nrc.gov
(valerie.whipple@nrc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- ASSISTANCE WITH REVIEW AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSES OF SPENT FUEL CASK AND PACKAGE DESIGNS PURSUANT TO 10 CFR PARTS 71 AND 72 THE U. S. NUCLEAR REGUALTORY COMMISSION (NRC) is issuing this Request For Information (RFI) as a means of conducting market research or a market survey to determine the range of commercial and public entities available to provide the NRC with contractor support to provide detailed review and computational analyses related to the thermal and structural performance of cask and package designs. The NRC certifies the designs of storage casks and transportation packages for the safe disposition of radioactive materials including spent nuclear fuel (SNF). Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 71 pertains to the requirements, procedures, and criteria for the issuance of certificates of compliance for the packaging, preparation for shipment, and transportation of licensed radioactive material. Title a10 CFR Part 72 regulations pertain to the requirements, procedures, and criteria for the issuance of licenses to receive, transfer, and possess power reactor spent fuel and other radioactive materials associated with spent fuel storage in an independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) and the terms and conditions under which the Commission will issue these licenses. As part of the certification process, the NRC reviews designs for packages and casks and which may include confirmatory analyses of these designs in the thermal or structural areas using finite element, finite difference, or computational fluid dynamics computer codes. The NRC seeks contractor support to provide detailed review and computational analyses related to the thermal and structural performance of cask and package designs, in order to certify that casks and packages meet the requirements of either 10 CFR Part 71 (for transportation), or 10 CFR Part 72 (for storage). The acquisition will be for one year base with four one-year options. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposal; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, website address and telephone number as well as size and type of ownership for the organization; 2) Responses to the Market Research Questions below; and 3) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. Organizations responding to this market survey should keep in mind that only focused and pertinent information is requested. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. Taking into account the magnitude of the scope of this professional recruitment effort, organizations also should address the capacity of their financial infrastructure to coordinate and deliver contract performance. Interested firms responding to this RFI are encouraged to structure capability statements in the order of the area of consideration noted above. Responding firms should provide copies of a tailored capability statement to the above noted address no later than 3:00 p.m. EST on May 16, 2011. This market survey is being conducted through the FedBizOpps to reach the widest possible audience and to gather current market information. MARKET RESEARCH QUESTIONS Please address the market research questions below and provide capability information on your staff's qualifications and your firm's corporate experience and qualifications as demonstrated through similar contracts or efforts. Page Limits for Response to Questions 1 to 17 should be no more than ten (10) pages. 1. What is the ownership type of your business (i.e, 8(a) program participant and/or located in a historically underutilized business zone, disadvantaged, women-owned, veteran, service disabled veteran, etc.)? 2. What is the size of your company (small or other than small?) 3. Which GSA FSS contracts, if any, do you possess? Please provide contract number and expiration date? 4. Please elaborate/support your company/employees' experience in the design, analysis, and/or testing of either radioactive material or spent nuclear fuel (SNF) transportation packages or storage casks. 5. What type of computer (hardware) capabilities does your company posses? Please provide a listing of the computational nodes available for running computer analysis codes. 6. Has your company developed computer analysis models of casks or packages for the transportation or storage of radioactive materials, and specifically SNF? 7. What types of computer codes have you utilized for these analyses? (COTS or User developed? FEA, CFD, FD, etc.?) 8. What types of analyses have you completed for these casks and/or packages? (i.e., thermal, structural, impact, shielding, criticality, etc.) 9. Have analysis models developed by your company been used to analyze the effects of the conditions described in 10 CFR Part 71 on transportation packages, or 10 CFR 72 on storage casks? 10. When considering thermal computer codes used by your company, are any of those codes capable of resolving three dimensional models of fuel assemblies in a package or cask to the fuel pin level, in order to determine maximum cladding temperatures? (i.e., can the code predict the hottest cladding location on the hottest fuel pin within an assembly?) 11. Does your company have any experience successfully benchmarking full scale or scaled structural impact tests using an explicit dynamics finite element code including failure prediction of subassemblies? 12. Have any of your analysis models been used to support an application for a certificate from the NRC? 13. Has your company developed any (computational) fire models? If so, what codes were utilized to develop these fire models and what have these fire models been used to assess? 14. Has your company used the results of fire models to model the effect of fire on radioactive material or SNF transportation packages? 15. Does your company have experimental capabilities? If so, please describe what types of experimental capabilities are available at your company. 16. Does your company have any expertise in the design, fabrication, or testing of nuclear fuels? 17. What specific capabilities does your company have in the area of nuclear fuels?
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