SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Spent Fuel Review Assistance
- Notice Date
- 8/2/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical 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-NMSS-8-2-2017
- Archive Date
- 9/8/2017
- Point of Contact
- Emarsha Whitt,
- E-Mail Address
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Emarsha.Whitt@nrc.gov
(Emarsha.Whitt@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 assistance with review and computational analyses of spent fuel cask and package designs pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 71 and 72. Specific activities include: providing the NRC with contractor support for 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). 10 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. 10 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). 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 541990. 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. 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 16 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 SNF transportation packages or storage casks. 5. What type of computer (hardware) capabilities does your company possess? 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. Can your company perform analyses using the COBRA - SFS thermal hydraulics code and develop module updates to the code? 9. What types of analyses have you completed for these casks and/or packages? (i.e., thermal, structural, impact, shielding, criticality, etc.) 10. 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? 11. 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?) 12. 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? 13. Have any of your analysis models been used to support an application for a certificate from the NRC? 14. Does your company have experimental capabilities? If so, please describe what types of experimental capabilities are available at your company. 15. Does your company have any expertise in the design, fabrication, or testing of nuclear fuels? 16. What specific capabilities does your company have in the area of nuclear fuels? 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 in the questions 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. 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 Emarsha Whitt, at emarsha.whitt@nrc.gov, either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), within 30 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 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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