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M -- SELECTION OF A CONTRACTOR FOR BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY SOL DE-RP02-97CH10886 POC Susan Borthwick, Contract Specialist (630) 252-2377 WEB: BNL Source Selection Board Page, http://www.ch.doe.gov/bnlseb. E-MAIL: BNL Source Selection Board's E-Mail Address, brookhaven.panel@ch.doe.gov. The Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking a contractor to manage and operate Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, NY. BNL is a multiprogram DOE Laboratory responsible for (i) conducting basic research, (ii) constructing, operating, maintaining, and developing basic research facilities, (iii) developing and testing advanced instruments, accelerators and equipment for research applications, (iv) conducting applied research, (v) conducting energy and environmental technology research, (vi) establishing and maintaining community relations and public involvement programs and (vii) environmental management activities in areas of remediation and facility deactivation, decommissioning, and decontamination; waste management involving storage and treatment of waste streams; waste minimization and pollution prevention initiatives; and environmental technology development. BNL is listed as a superfund site and a Federal Facility Agreement has been executed between DOE, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation governing the remediation of the site. Consistent with Secretary Pe a's announcement of the termination of the existing BNL contract with Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), DOE anticipates that award of a new contract will be made in early November 1997. DOE is limiting this competition to nonprofit organizations (including educational institutions, consortia of educational institutions, and not-for-profit organizations) as the proposed prime contractor. Offerors are expected to demonstrate a corporate record of success in conducting both world class research and facility operations including (i) managing and operating large research facilities, including nuclear reactors, (ii) integrating diverse scientific expertise in addressing difficult research problems, (iii) managing and implementing comprehensive environmental, safety and health (ES&H) programs, (iv) developing and implementingcommunity involvement programs for both the local community and regulators (federal, state, local) which focus on a scientific mission, as well as ES&H, and environmental management activities, (v) managing and/or conducting (a) remediation activities at an operating site or facility in response to the requirements of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; (b) decontamination and decommissioning activities at radioactivity and chemically contaminated facilities, and; (c) comprehensive site-wide waste management operations in accordance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and (vi) establishing and/or maintaining human resource systems that support diversity and achieve high productivity from employees in scientific research and laboratory operations. Due to the breadth of these requirements, DOE is encouraging offerors to consider the benefits of adding other organizations to their proposed team through appropriate contractual arrangements, e.g., establishing a non-profit joint venture, partnering, designated subcontractors, etc. The offeror will also be required to propose key personnel with national standing that will allow them to identify and promote cutting edge science and who possess diversified, extensive management experience in assuring safe and reliable operations of research and user facilities, including nuclear reactors. The offeror will be required to address ES&H as an inherent critical aspect of accomplishing the work and shall effectively address and integrate ES&H issues and resources for all aspects of the proposed work throughout the Laboratory, including the science mission, facility operations, remediation activities, decontamination and decommissioning activities (both radioactive and chemical), and waste management activities, etc. Additionally, the offeror must possess the vision and capacity for utilizing and enhancing the special features of Brookhaven as a multipurpose Laboratory to establish innovative, creative multidisciplinary research teams to address problems not readily solved in a university setting. Particular emphasis will be placed on the management systems utilized to ensure the successful execution of these programs. Evaluation criteria will emphasize the foregoing, as well as the experience of the offeror's management personnel, e.g. offerors will be expected to propose the Laboratory Director and other senior staff responsible for managing significant laboratory functions. The Request for Proposals (RFP) is expected to include several Qualification Criteria relating to the existing Laboratory workforce. Qualification Criteria are "go/no go" criteria which depict the minimum qualifications or commitments that an offeror must meet. The purpose of qualification criteria is to discourage organizations from incurring the time and expense associated with the submission of offers when they clearly are unqualified for selection or when they are unable to make fundamental commitments that the Government requires. Each offeror's response to any qualification criteria must be such as to permit the Source Evaluation Board (SEB) to make an objective finding that the offeror either has met or has failed to meet the criteria. For this solicitation, DOE anticipates requiring offerors, including designated subcontractors, to agree to several Qualification Criteria, e.g., requirements to: offer employment (except for key Laboratory management personnel), consistent with Fiscal Year 1998 appropriations, either through its own organization or designated subcontractor(s) to virtually all other Laboratory personnel currently employed at comparable pay and benefits; credit employees' length of service with the current contractor; recognize the currently certified collective bargaining agents and their existing bargaining agreements; and accept the transfer and assume responsibility and accountability for existing commercial and regulatory obligations. The resultant contract is expected to be a performance-based management contract with a five-year term and one five-year option consistent with the DOE's Contract Reform Initiative. The initial contract term will contain an "off-ramp" after three years whereby DOE may replace the Contractor, without DOE incurring any termination liability, if the Contractor is not performing in an excellent manner. The contract is expected to be effective in early November 1997, and it is anticipated that there will be an appropriate transition period with AUI prior to the selected Contractor assuming full control of BNL. A Strategic Solicitation Plan is anticipated to be issued for public comment, available on the DOE Chicago Operations Office (CH) INTERNET Home Page at http://www.ch.doe.gov/bnlseb, and by computer disk, by mid-June. DOE intends to hold Strategic Solicitation Plan Workshops to solicit comments on this document near BNL in late June. An RFP is intended to be issued in early July with a preproposal conference near BNL in mid-to-late July. Written proposals will be due in late August. Offerors will be expected to provide an oral presentation in late September with contractor selection and contract award expected in early November, 1997. Copies of the RFP will be available on the CH INTERNET Home Page and will also be available on computer disk and public reading rooms at libraries near the BNL site. Copies of the existing BNL contract with AUI will be available in early June on the CH INTERNET Home Page and the BNL Institutional Plan is available by contacting Susan Borthwick at INTERNET address brookhaven.panel@ch.doe.gov or by facsimile number 630-252-0914. (0148)

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