US Department of Energy, Albuquerque Operations Office, Contracts and Procurement Division, PO Box 5400, Albuquerque, NM 87185-5400

H -- SUPPORT SERVICES FOR NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVES SYSTEMS SAFETY STUDIES/SURVEYS SOL DE-RP04-96AL89506 DUE 112795 POC Daniel J. Saiz, (505) 845-4225, Contract Specialist, Eusebio M. Espinosa, (505) 845-5809, Contracting Officer. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Albuquerque Operations Office(AL), seeks sources to provide technical support to the Nuclear Explosive Safety Division (NESD). Technical support encompasses assisting NESD staff prepare for DOE and DOD studies by researching NES issues and recommending courses of action, researching weapon design historical information with emphasis on nuclear explosive safety design features and their evaluation, preparing background material for NESD management, assisting NESD staff in the preparation of NES study reports, assisting NESD staff prepare NES procedures, standards, and guides, assisting NESD staff prepare for NES appraisals, and evaluating required and recurrent NES training for new DOE employees and current NESD staff. DOE Orders and AL Supplemental Directives 5610.10 and 5610.11 require Nuclear Explosive Safety Study (NESS) groups to evaluate all operations on or involving nuclear explosives while in DOE custody. DOE Order and AL Supplemental Directive 5610.13 and the DOD Directive (DODD) 3150.2 require Nuclear Weapons Systems Safety (NWSS) groups to evaluate all operations on nuclear weapon systems in DOD possession. These evaluations assure that there are positive measures (1) to prevent nuclear explosives/weapons involved in accidents from generating a nuclear yield, (2) to prevent the deliberate unauthorized prearming, arming, launching, firing, releasing or detonating of a nuclear explosive, (3) to prevent the accidental or inadvertent prearming, arming, launching, firing, releasing or detonating of a nuclear explosive, and, (4) to assure adequate security to prevent unauthorized access to a nuclear explosive/weapon. Also, DOE Order 5610.11 requires that nuclear explosives, while in the custody of DOE, must be evaluated to assure positive measures are in place to prevent dispersal of plutonium. The responsibility for implementing the AL NES program has been assigned to NESD. NESD schedules, coordinates, and chairs NESS group meetings on nuclear explosive operations underthe cognizance of AL and represent AL at NESS groups evaluating nuclear explosive operations conducted by Nevada Operations. Because of the accelerated schedule for nuclear explosive dismantlement mandated by National policy which is currently fully loading Departmental nuclear explosive safety manpower, NESD will not be able to support the number of NES reviews and provide the required documented NES recommendations without the assistance of a trained and qualified technical support contractor. Absence of this support may impact mandated nuclear explosives disposition schedules. NESD proposes to use the technical support contractor to assist AL NESS group members prepare for NESS group meetings and minimize the time required to prepare the subsequent reports and supporting documentation. It is important that the technical support contractor retain similar experience base in order for their services to be of maximum benefit to the Department. The technical support contractor must be familiar with the entire spectrum of activities within NESD, with particular emphasis on activities within NES day-to-day programs and NES specialized training programs. They need to be familiar with DOE and DOD organizational structures and personnel, including our NATO allies. The purpose is to support the timely management of NES while supporting efficient and ultimately the safest means of nuclear explosive disassembly/assembly and nuclear weapon design. Although not representing the Department, the technical support contractor must be and remain technically knowledgeable of nuclear explosive operational activities and the policy and programs supporting these activities, in order to maximize the usefulness of the technical support and to address issues which are of paramount concern to Department. All responsible sources should submit their qualification documentation not later than 30 days from publication. Any party interested in being considered as a potential source for this contract must respond with a statement of interest that: (1) Describes the technical expertise and experience in the area of nuclear explosive safety discipline. Address your companies ability to provide support for multiple projects simultaneously in the areas of nuclear explosive or weapon system safety technical discipline, to include past performance experience and references. (2) Describe the staffing and response capability on boh routine and surge basis. (3) Address fully the staff depth and individual expertise. At a minimum, your company needs to be thoroughly familiar with the design requirement for nuclear explosive relating to the concepts of strong/weak links, isolation, HE sensitivity, abnormal environment definition and threats, nuclear explosive hazard analysis and personnel reliability concepts/programs. This award will be set aside for small business. The SIC number is 8741 and the size standard is $3.5 million. Only written responses to this notice will be accepted and should be addressed to the point of contact, Daniel J. Saiz, at the address listed above or faxed to (505) 845-4210. Technical questions may be addressed to Mr. Steve Thompson by calling him at (505) 845-5679 or by FAX to (505) 845- 4209. Business questions should be address to Eusebio M. Espinosa calling him at (505) 845-5809 or by FAX (505) 845-4210. All questions will need to be followed in writing to Daniel J. Saiz at the address listed above. Control No. 95-23. (0297)

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