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M -- PERFORMANCE BASED MANAGEMENT AND OPERATING CONTRACT FOR THE OFFICE OF CIVILIAN RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM SOL DE-RP08-00NV12101 DUE 022800 POC Jerri J. Adams, Contracting Officer (702) 869-2810 E-mail: jerri_adams@ymp.gov WEB: Yucca Mountain Home Page, Contract Recompetition, http://www.ymp.gov/. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) program, is seeking comments on a draft solicitation for a performance based management and operating (M&O) contract to plan, manage, and integrate all activities supporting both unique and non-unique functions for the OCRWM program in the most cost effective manner. It is anticipated that the draft solicitation will be available on or about January 31, 2000, and public comments are due to the agency by February 28, 2000. In order to actively support the government's initiative to enhance the use of electronic commerce in the federal acquisition process, the draft solicitation will be available in both PDF and Microsoft Word 97 formats at the following URL address: http://www.ymp.gov/, then click on "Contract Recompetition." This website will be the official distribution medium for this draft solicitation and interested offerors should frequently check this website for amendments, notices, changes, questions and answers, or any other pertinent information relating to this draft solicitation. All comments and/or questions must be submitted through the website question section. Answers will be posted thereon by the agency as they are developed. A separate Commerce Business Daily notice will be issued to announce when the finalized solicitation will be available on the above website. It is anticipated that the resulting contract from the finalized solicitation will be a performance based M&O contract for a five-year period (plus a three-month transition period) with a unilateral extension option (soley at the Government's discretion) for up to an additional five year period. Offerors must be willing to enter into performance based incentive fee arrangements to assure a "pay-for-performance" concept is implemented in this contract. By law, DOE is responsible for the nation's high-level nuclear waste disposal program. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended (NWPA), established OCRWM within the DOE and assigned OCRWM the responsibility to develop, construct, and operate a system for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste disposal, including a permanent geologic repository, and transportation system. OCRWM is headquartered in Washington, DC. OCRWM carries out its mission through two project-level business centers -- the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Waste, Acceptance, Storage, and Transportation Project at OCRWM headquarters. The OCRWM program continues to focus on core activities that will precede acceptance and transportation of spent nuclear fuel from reactor sites to a federal facility, such as a potential geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The potential geologic repository is located approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas on unpopulated land that is owned by the Federal Government. If the site is recommended for development and subsequently licensed, spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste will be transported to Yucca Mountain by truck and/or rail. DOE is seeking offers to plan, manage, and integrate the complex activities required in a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing environment. Due to the complex nature of siting, developing, and licensing a repository, the design for the facilities could change significantly as new technical advancements, cost effective solutions, and/or new requirements are identified. The value of the contract for the basic five-year award period (excluding the three-month transition period) is estimated at $3.1B. Posted 01/19/00 (W-SN417090). (0019)

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