U.S. Department of Energy, Oakland Operations Office, 1301 Clay Street, Room 700N, Oakland, CA 94612-5208

81 -- STORAGE PACKAGING FOR NUCLEAR MATERIAL SOL DE-RP03-99SF21766 DUE 021099 POC Wayne Bryan, Contract Specialist, (510) 637-1712 WEB: Click here for DOE OAK Homepage, select OAK Procurement,, http://www.oak.gov (OAK Procurement). E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist via, wayne.bryan@oak.doe.gov. The U.S. Department of Energy is requesting proposals from organizations that have the capability to supply metal storage containers that will be used for the long term storage of plutonium metals and stabilized plutonium oxides in accordance with DOE STD 3013-96, "Criteria for Preparing and Packaging Plutonium Metals and Oxides for Long Term Storage". Three cans are nested together to form a storage package that is 254 mm in length and 125 mm in diameter. Plutonium material is placed into a convenience can, which is then lidded. The convenience can is placed inside an inner can. A hollow plug is then inserted into the inner can and welded in place. The excess material is cut off leaving the base of the hollow plug as the inner can lid. Finally the inner can is placed into an outer can and a lid is fitted and welded into place. Potential offerers must meet the quality assurance requirements of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) NQA-1, Basic 1-18 points. An estimated 10,000 storage packageswill be procured, phased over a three year period. The response to this solicitation must be in accordance with the Request For Proposals (RFP) which will be issued on or about January 11, 1999 and can be found at http://www.oak.doe.gov. No paper copies of the solicitation will be made available. Prospective offerers who do not have electronic capability to download the solicitation may submit a written request to the U.S. Department of Energy, 1301 Clay Street, Room 700-N, Oakland, CA, 94612-5208, Attn: Wayne Bryan and include a self-addressed stamped envelope and three MS-DOS formatted, high density, three inch, virus free diskette. Prospective offerers who fail to submit an appropriate diskettes and a stamped self-addressed envelope will not receive the solicitation. A pre-proposal conference at the Oakland Operations Office is planned after the solicitation is released. The solicitation will contain further details regarding the pre-proposal conference. The DOE STD 3013-96 can be accessed at http://www.apollo.osti.gov/html/techstds/standard/appframe.html. Posted 12/17/98 (W-SN281616). (0351)

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