SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Technical Assistance in Support of the Division of Safety Systems, Reactor Systems Branch Review of Licensing Actions
- Notice Date
- 11/26/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Acquisition Management Division, Acquisition Management Division, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852-2738, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20852-2738
- Solicitation Number
- NRC-11-26-2013
- Archive Date
- 1/11/2014
- Point of Contact
- Tonya Russell,
- E-Mail Address
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Tonya.Russell@nrc.gov
(Tonya.Russell@nrc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC) is issuing this Sources Sought Synopsis as a means of conducting market research or as a market survey to determine the availability of potential qualified vendors with the technical capability to provide all management, supervision, administration, and labor for the Technical Assistance in Support of the Division of Safety Systems, Reactor Systems Branch Review of Licensing Actions. Services are to be provided to the NRC in Rockville, Maryland. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541690. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for sources and vendor 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. The purpose of this announcement is to provide potential sources the opportunity to submit information regarding their capabilities to perform work for the NRC free of conflict of interest (COI). For information on NRC COI regulations, visit NRC Acquisition Regulation Subpart 2009.5 (http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/contracting/48cfr-ch20.html). All interested parties, including all categories of small businesses (small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, 8(a) firms, women-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and HUBZone small businesses) are invited to submit a response. The capabilities package submitted by a vendor should demonstrate the firm's ability, capability, and responsibility to perform the principal components of work listed below. The package should also include past performance/experience regarding projects of similar scope listing the project title, general description, the dollar value of the contract, and name of the company, agency, or government entity for which the work was performed. 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. Submission of additional materials such as glossy brochures or videos is discouraged. Background The NRC is responsible for the licensing and regulatory oversight of civilian nuclear power reactors in the United States. The NRC implements regulations and develops and implements policies, programs, and procedures pertaining to all aspects of licensing and inspection of these facilities. The NRC Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) is responsible for contributing to the regulatory mission of the NRC by providing lead in all licensing and inspection activities associated with the operation of existing nuclear power reactors and research and test reactor. NRR conducts a broad range of regulatory activities in the four primary program areas of rulemaking, licensing, oversight, and incident response for commercial nuclear power reactors, and test and research reactors to protect the public health, safety, and the environment. Division of Safety Systems (DSS) of NRR provides nuclear plant systems-related analysis to assess the regulatory and technical appropriateness of the changes to existing licenses (Technical Specification, TS) including amendments, exceptions and applications for new facilities or designs. This analysis focuses on plant safety-related (primary and secondary systems) and non-safety related systems (containment, ventilation and balance of plant), in-core and spent fuel pool performance of fuel, clad and fuel assembly, nuclear physics, and thermal hydraulic performance. DSS provides expertise for other related purposes such as specific safety issue resolution, specific inspections, and incident response. Also, DSS develops programs and guidelines to improve generic technical specifications and provides interpretations of technical specification requirements. The aforementioned work activities are performed under the cognizance of five branches: the Reactor Systems Branch (SRXB), the Nuclear Performance and Code Review Branch (SNPB), the Balance-of-Plant Branch (SBPB), the Containment and Ventilation Branch (SCVB) and the Safety Issues Resolution Branch (SSIB). Specifically, SRXB is responsible for evaluating issues related to fuel, thermal hydraulics, emergency core cooling systems, loss-of-coolant accident analysis and mitigation, transient analysis and mitigation, stability, nuclear physics, nuclear criticality safety, methods and code review related to all of the above. This contract will primarily focus on review of plant-specific licensing actions dealing with fuel, thermal hydraulics, emergency core cooling systems, loss-of-coolant accident analysis and mitigation, transient analysis and mitigation, stability, nuclear physics, and nuclear criticality safety. REQUIRED CAPABILITIES: The NRC is seeking to identify commercial organizations with Nuclear, Mechanical, or Reactor Engineers/Scientists with in-depth knowledge and extensive experience in the following: • Using nuclear and thermal hydraulic analysis codes and the ability to develop cross-section libraries for use in the analysis of reactor design concepts and to generate data under all operating conditions. • Nuclear engineering reactor design and the ability to perform calculations, analyses and studies of reactor fuel cycles, reactor dynamics and kinetics simulations of reactors, develop nuclear physics methods of nuclear power plant dynamics and thermal-hydraulics using thermal-hydraulic codes. • Nuclear and mechanical fuel design and fuel cycle modeling including nuclear criticality safety reviews. Including the depletion analysis necessary to generate isotopic number densities for modeling spent nuclear fuel. • Loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) analysis including knowledge of all phases of the accident and of modeling codes. • Non-LOCA transient analysis, coupled nuclear reactor kinetics and thermal hydraulics reactor physics methods. • Thermal hydraulics and/or nuclear physics code development pertaining to a nuclear reactor including theory and correlations and associated testing and experimental data for benchmarking and uncertainty analysis. • Nuclear reactor stability analysis in Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs). • All aspects of core and reflector facility design. • Analysis for neutronic and thermal hydraulic instabilities in BWRs including evaluation of methodologies used to detect and suppress reactor instabilities and for special events such as ATWS and ATWS instabilities. The contractors should be technical experts in their field, with extensive nuclear experience in the areas of nuclear criticality safety, nuclear reactor stability, and nuclear and thermal-hydraulic code development and use. The contractors should have in-depth knowledge in their technical area in order to identify and resolve issues. The technical personnel should have the knowledge and experience with the applicable NRC's regulatory process, applicable code of federal regulations (CFR), the applicability of Regulatory Guide (RG), NRC technical report designation Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NUREGs), Generic Letters (GLs), Information Notices (INs), Regulatory Issue Summaries (RISs), Interim Staff Guidance (ISGs), and relevant industry standard to the extent sufficient that the process can be applied to the potential support tasks. Commercial organizations that are interested in supporting our technical assistance requirements please address the market research questions below and provide capability information on your staff's qualifications and your firm's corporate experiences and qualifications on similar contracts or efforts. HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE If your organization has the capability and capacity to perform, as a prime contractor, one or more of the services described in this notice, then please respond to this notice and provide written responses to the following information. Please do not include any proprietary or otherwise sensitive information in the response, and do not submit a proposal. Proposals submitted in response to this notice will not be considered. 1. Organization name, address, emails address, Web site address and telephone number. 2. What size is your organization with respect to NAICS code identified in this notice (i.e., "small" or "other than small")? If your organization is a small business under the aforementioned NAICS code, what type of small business (i.e., small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business, economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, 8(a), or HUBZone small business)? Specify all that apply. 3. Although no geographic restriction is anticipated, if responding organizations are located outside the Washington Metropolitan area (Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia), indicate how the organization would coordinate with the NRC program office located in Rockville, Maryland to provide the support services. 4. Separately and distinctly describe which of the required capabilities listed above that your organization possesses and indicate your organization's role (prime contractor, first tier subcontractor, and/or supplier) in related contracts. Please also provide the contract number, contract type, customer name, address and point of contact phone number and email address, contract value, thorough description of supplies and services included in the scope of that contract, indication of how they differ from the required capabilities described in this notice, period of performance (for services) or delivery date (for products), and any other relevant information. 5. For Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) product offerings relevant to this requirement provide completed Voluntary Product Accessibility templates or other documentation that addresses compliance with the applicable standards (add website link) for those products. For any federal customers that your agency has provided information technology services within the required capabilities areas, indicate how your company complies with applicable Section 508 standards (see buyaccesible.gov). 6. For any federal customers that your agency has for the required capabilities, indicate how your company complies with applicable environmental laws and Federal regulations (See NRC's Green Purchasing Plan at: http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1219/ML12191A130.pdf). 7. Indicate whether your organization offers any of the required capabilities described in this notice on one or more of your company's own Federal Government contracts (i.e., GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract or Government wide Acquisition Contracts) that the NRC could order from and, if so, which services are offered. Also, provide the contract number(s) and indicate what is currently available for ordering from each of those contract(s). 8. Provide a standard, non-proprietary commercial price list or similar standard non-proprietary commercial pricing information for how your company sells, as a prime contractor, required capabilities described in this notice that your organization has experience providing. Also, indicate what is included in that pricing. 9. Is your organization currently performing or have in the past performed same or similar services as those listed above for any of the licensees regulated by the NRC? If so, which licensees? See http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/licensing.html for more information on NRC licensing. 10. Has your organization previously faced organizational conflict of interest issues with NRC? If so, what were they and how were they mitigated or resolved? Interested organizations responding to this Sources Sought Synopsis are encouraged to structure capability statements in the order of the area of consideration noted above. All capability statements sent in response to this notice must be submitted electronically, via e-mail, to Tonya Russell at Tonya.Russell@nrc.gov, either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), by December 27, 2013. DISCLAIMER AND NOTES: Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's potential capability and capacity to perform the subject work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.
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