SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Environmental Assessment Reactor Review Team Home (EARRTH) Comment Response Data
- Notice Date
- 6/23/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental 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-HQ-NMSS-16-0001
- Archive Date
- 7/8/2016
- Point of Contact
- Carolyn A. Cooper, Phone: 3014156734
- E-Mail Address
-
carolyn.cooper@nrc.gov
(carolyn.cooper@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 to determine the availability and technical capability of the business community to provide technical assistance for the management of public comments using the Environmental Assessment Reactor Review Team Home (EARRTH) Comment Response Database (CRD). The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541620 - Environmental Consulting Services. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for sources and vendor information does not constitute a request for proposal and the submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary. The Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. Background: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS) issues advanced notice of potential rulemakings (ANPR), proposed rulemakings, draft NUREGs, and other guidance and regulatory documents for public review and comment. The NRC must process and address the public comments received in response to these notices in an effective and efficient manner. Under a NRC contract, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) developed a SharePoint site (which is hosted at PNNL), entitled "Environmental Assessment Reactor Review Team Home (EARRTH)," which consists of a Comment Response Database (CRD) to assist NRC staff with the management of public comments. The CRD allows the NRC to leverage the accumulated knowledge of thousands of responses to previously received comments in order to quickly and consistently answer similar questions. Capability Sought: The NRC is seeking to identify commercial organizations capable of providing technical assistance in performing the following: • Hosting and managing the EARRTH CRD and providing overall information technology support to include hosting the database, uploading documents, references, background material to EARRTH SharePoint site, customize CRD binning structure, update search feature built to filter based on site-specific bins, use of current set of automated reports generated by the CRD, provide access to online help files, and provide Help Desk support • Providing training via webinar/teleconference on how to use the CRD and navigate EARRTH • Tracking all incoming public comments as they are received • Managing comments received • Generating and creating reports using the CRD • Finalizing comments and responses and updating the CRD The contractor and/or its proposed personnel shall have extensive expertise in hosting, operating and maintaining a CRD, as well as knowledge of nuclear material regulations. Respondents must demonstrate their ability to: train nuclear material staff to work within the CRD, host the CRD database, program the CRD database, maintain the CRD database continuous operation without interruption, and protect the data (data security) in the CRD database. 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 organizational conflict of interest (OCOI). For information on NRC OCOI 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 above. 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. 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 to your organization. 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 Carolyn Cooper, at Carolyn.Cooper@nrc.gov, either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), within 14 calendar days from the date of publication of this notice. 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 to provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may or may NOT be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, United States
- Zip Code: 20852
- Zip Code: 20852
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