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V -- LEAD TEST ASSEMBLY SHIPPING CASK AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SOL DE-RP02-97DP00424 DUE 010598 POC Contact Melissa Stubbs, 630/252-8728/Contracting Officer Charles G. Frazier, 630/252-2082 WEB: DOE, Chicago Operations Office Acquisition and Assistance Home Page, http://www.ch.doe.gov/business/ACQ.htm. E-MAIL: POC: Melissa Stubbs, Panel Secretary, melissa.stubbs@ch.doe.gov. The Department of Energy (DOE) is hereby revising its notice of intent to issue a Request For Proposals (RFP) for Lead Test Assembly (LTA) Shipping Cask and Transportation Services. As part of the in-reactor demonstration portion of the Commercial Light Water Reactor Tritium Production Project, DOE is irradiating 32 Tritium Producing Burnable Absorber Rods (TPBARs) for one operational cycle at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant beginning in the Fall of 1997. Eight TPBARs configure one LTA. Four LTAs will be ready for transportation by July 1999 for post irradiation examination to be performed at undesignated examination facilities. This RFP pursues the acquisition of cask packaging and transportation services to prepare, package and securely transport four LTAs from Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, near Spring City, Tennessee, to the examination facilities. The requirements include: 1) cask certification, transportation planning services, technical assistance and related documentation; 2)LTA Transportation Services. The following qualification criterion is applicable: proposers must own, or have under contract, a legal weight truck shipping cask that meets the requirements of 10 CFR 71. The RFP will be released on or about November 7, 1997 and will be posted on the DOE Chicago INTERNET Home Page at http://www.ch.doe.gov/business/ACQ.htm. To access and download the solicitation electronically, use one of the following methods: (1) users with INTERNET access can use WEB browsers such as NETSCAPE and MOSAIC to access the DOE CHICAGO OPERATIONS OFFICE HOMEPAGE at http://www.ch.doe.gov/; or (2) users with dial-up hosts connection to the INTERNET (such as America On Line, Compuserv, or Prodigy) can access the DOE CHICAGO OPERATIONS HOMEPAGE by using their INTERNET access software.***** (0296)

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