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A -- CONCEPT PAPERS SOUGHT FOR PRODUCING, SELLING, PACKAGING AND DISTRIBUTING ELECTROMAGNETICALLY SEPARATED STABLE ISOTOPES. FOR COMMERCIAL AND RESEARCH PURPOSES. SOL DE-RP05-00OR22763 DUE 102299 POC Larry Boyd 423-574-7613. Contracting Officer Barbara J. Jackson 423-576-0976 WEB: Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations Office,, http://www.oro.doe.gov/procurement/cur_sol.html. E-MAIL: Barbara J. Jackson, Contracting Officer, jacksonbj@oro.doe.gov. The Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations Office, is soliciting Technical/Business Strategy Concept Papers from qualified firms interested in producing, marketing, selling, packaging and distributing electromagnetically separated stable (EM-Stable) isotopes for commercial and research purposes. DOE's goal is to privatize its stable isotope production activities performed at the DOE Y-12 site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. DOE previously attempted to seek a contractor to operate the electromagnetic isotope separation calutron facility located at the DOE Y-12 site in Oak Ridge, but was not successful. This is an alternative approach to that initiative. Activities included in any resulting award(s) will be the marketing, sales, and distribution activities; managing the existing inventory; moving, establishing and operating the Isotope Research Materials Laboratory in an off-site private location; processing the existing pockets of EM-stable isotopes, as necessary; and participating with the DOE in the development and establishment of a replacement stable isotope enrichment unit located at a private facility and the operation of this unit by the successful Offeror. Detailed Supplemental Information that provides instructions for preparing the Concept Paper will be available on the internet at http://www.oro.doe.gov/procurement/cur_sol.html on or about August 27, 1999. A one day conference and tour of the existing calutron facility is being scheduled. Registration materials will be included in the Supplemental Information. Concept Papers are due on October 22, 1999. This requirement includes the following qualification criterion: The prospective offeror must be a United States-owned company or a United States- based, foreign-owned firm. A foreign-based, foreign-owned firm is not eligible to participate in this requirement. United States-owned company means (1) a company that has majority ownership by individuals who are citizens of the United States, or (2) a company organized under the laws of a State that either has no parent company or has a parent company organized under the laws of a State. Interested offerors must submit a Technical/Business Strategy Concept Paper in order to be considered for performance of this work. If the offeror does not meet the requirements of the qualification criterion, the Concept Paper will not be evaluated. Concept Papers which meet the qualification criterion will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation criteria cited in the Supplemental Information. After completing the initial evaluation, the Government shall advise each respondent in writing either that it will be invited to continue in the acquisition or, based on the information submitted, it has been eliminated from further competition. Only those offerors whose Concept Papers best achieve DOE's objectives will receive a formal solicitation and be allowed to continue in the procurement process. The Government may reject any or all Concept Papers if such action is in the Government's best interest. The selection of the successful offeror will be based on the offer which is determined to be in the best interest of the Government. Posted 08/23/99 (W-SN371073). (0235)

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