SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Notice of Intent to Sole Source
- Notice Date
- 10/25/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- Oak RidgeU.S. Department of EnergyP.O. Box 2001Oak RidgeTN37831
- ZIP Code
- 37831
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Notice of Intent to Award The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Oak Ridge Office intends to award a sole source contract to Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve), LLC for technical support to the DOE's Nuclear Energy Oak Ridge Site Office (NE ORSO) for the shutdown of the Demonstration Cascade and termination of Centrus' Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) license for the Lead Cascade for uranium enrichment at Piketon, Ohio, and for the DOE lease to Centrus of classified research and development facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The anticipated period of performance is not expected to exceed December 31, 2018, which is the end of the lease with Centrus. In accordance with FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(ii), other than full and open competition is authorized when it is likely that award to any other source would result in a substantial duplication of cost not expected to be recovered through competition or will cause unacceptable delays in the fulfilling the agency?s requirements when dealing with highly specialized equipment. Background: The current services are included in the scope of a Government Services Administration schedule (GSA No. GS-00F-112CA) with Professional Project Services, Inc. (Pro2Serve), which was competitively issued in April 2015. Pro2Serve has supported the Office of Nuclear Energy for 16+ years as a company across multiple contractual vehicles, and employs staff with extensive experience with this scope of work. Pro2Serve has unique qualifications and the direct experience with the lease agreements between Centrus and DOE, the in-depth technical knowledge and background of the equipment and facilities at Piketon and Oak Ridge, and the applicable programmatic knowledge of NE and EM. The contractor's subject matter experts have over 40 years of combined experience and have supported NE ORSO since 2006 in all aspects of the 2002 Agreement and Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP) and Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant (GCEP) leases. This company has unique recent experience from the shutdown of Centrus leased facilities at Paducah, Kentucky and transfer of the facilities to DOE's EM program. They have been extensively involved in the evaluation enriched uranium supporting tritium production and enriched uranium research reactors. Activities include technical services supporting DOE activities associated with the planning and execution of the decontaminating and decommissioning (D&D) of the facility by Centrus and the removal and disposing of all Centrus-owned Advanced Centrifuge Plant equipment and DOE owned equipment. Additionally, support is required for inspection and accreditation of cyber security systems and programs in support of lnteragency Agreements between the NRC and DOE. DOE provides authorization of these systems and programs for the NRC at several NRC Licensee's facilities (including Centrus facilities). The expected level of effort is approximately 2.5 full-time equivalents. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) AND NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE. Notwithstanding, any vendor who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement as stated herein may submit a response, which will be considered only if received by 4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on November 3, 2017. Responses to this posting must be in writing and submitted to michael.pitt@science.doe.gov no later than the aforementioned time and date. A determination not to compete this requirement based on the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Please note that any prospective offeror must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov in accordance with FAR part 4.11.
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