U.S. Department of Energy, Carlsbad Area Office P.O. Box 3090, Carlsbad NM 88221-3090

B -- SPECIAL CONTINUOUS AIR MONITORING STUDY SOL DE-RP04-1999AL79751 DUE 010899 POC Kimberly V. Carroll, Contracting Officer (505)234-7322 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer, carrolk@wipp.carlsbad.nm.us. This is a solicitation for a special ventilation exhaust stream study that will test continuous air monitors and filter media for airborne transuranic molecules. The Government anticipates that it will award a purchase order pursuant to this solicitation utilizing Simplified Acquisition Procedures. During contract performance the contractor shall be required to: assist the Carlsbad Area Office (CAO) in identifying and analyzing new continuous air monitor (CAM) technology for remote-handled (RH) TRU waste disposal operations; test CAM technologies and filter media in controlled laboratory conditions using radioactive materials to determine their suitability for use at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) (Note: The contractor shall have a facility that can produce and release aerosols containing plutonium under a controlled environment); provide expert direction and guidance with monitoring methodologies and techniques appropriate for WIPP ventilation exhaust streams and the single point sampling practices used at WIPP; and assist the CAO in responding to comments from external stakeholders regarding continuous monitoring airborne particulate sampling of the WIPP ventilation exhaust streams and the use of shrouded probes and single point sampling of the WIPP. This contract action is for services for which the Government intends to enter into a sole source contract with Lovelace Biomedical & Environmental Research Institute, P.O. Box 5890, Albuquerque, NM 87185, under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, since it believes that Lovelace Biomedical & Environmental Research Institute is the only firm that has the capability to properly test CAMs and filter media with aerosol airborne transuranic particles under controlled laboratory conditions. All interested parties are required to submit a prospectus of their company's qualifications and shall include fully burdened hourly rates of their project manager, scientists and technical experts and shall provide the price structure of their test facilities to: U.S. Department of Energy, Carlsbad Area Office, Attn: Kimberly V. Carroll, Contracting Officer, Post Office Box 3090, Carlsbad, NM 88221-3090. All offers received within 16 days after the date of this synopsis will be considered by the Government, if determined to be technically qualified. Technical material may be submitted via facsimile at 505- 234-7019, or may be sent electronically via the internet to the following address: carrolk@wipp.carlsbad.nm.us Posted 12/09/98 (W-SN278723). (0343)

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