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M -- MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF PANTEX PLANT NEAR AMARILLO, TEXAS SOL DE-RP04-00AL66620 DUE 031000 POC Point of Contact: Mike Frietze, Cont. Officer 505-845-6158 Juan Williams, Exec. Secretary 505-845-5865. WEB: Nuclear Weapons Production Plants Solicitations, http://www.doeal.gov/cpd/NWPP/NWPPdefault.htm. E-MAIL: Juan D. Williams, Executive Secretary, jdwilliams@doeal.gov. The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), Albuquerque Operations Office, is seeking competitive offers for a performance-based management contract to manage and operate the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. This acquisition will be on an unrestricted basis. The contract will be a cost-plus-award-fee type for a five-year period with a unilateral extension option (solely at the Government's discretion) for up to an additional five-year period. The contract will implement the principles of DOE's Contract Reform initiatives. In addition to the award fee provisions of the contract, offerors must be willing to enter into performance-based incentive fee arrangements to assure a "pay-for-performance" concept is implemented in this contract. The Pantex Plant is a Government-owned, Contractor-operated nuclear weapons assembly/disassembly facility that also manufactures High Explosive (HE) components. The Pantex Plant is located on approximately 9,100 acres at the Pantex Plant proper and 1,077 acres of detached property called Pantex Lake, approximately 2.5 miles northeast of the main plant site. As of October 1, 1999, the Pantex Plant employment level was approximately 2,800 people in various disciplines. With the end of the Cold War, DOE has made major programmatic decisions that effect the current and future operation of the Pantex Plant. Presidential decisions and international treaties have required the Pantex Plant to dismantle a significant fraction of the Cold War nuclear weapons stockpile during the decade of the 1990's. Most significant for the future, DOE determined in the 1996 Record of Decision for the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement that the Pantex Plant would be the sole U.S. site for the maintenance, refurbishment, and eventual dismantlement of the future (smaller) U. S. nuclear weapon stockpile. The facility must closely interact with other production plants and design laboratories in the Nuclear Weapons Complex, other DOE Offices and numerous other organizations including the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and the State of Texas. The Pantex Plant is operated under the direction of the DOE Amarillo Area Office. The primary focus for this contract will be to manage and operate a major industrial facility and perform the nuclear weapons missions which are assigned to that facility. This includes all ongoing objectives of the facility as well as those that may be assigned during the term of the Contract. It further includes all infrastructure management and maintenance; human resource management including critical skills recruitment and retention; environmental management and remediation; health, safety and security systems; and purchasing and other administrative systems. The value of the contract for the basic five-year award period will be approximately $1.35 billion. In order to actively support the Government's initiative to enhance the use of electronic commerce in the federal acquisition process, the solicitation will be available in Rich Text Format at the following URL address: http://www.doeal.gov/cpd/nwpp/solicitations.htm. This web site will be the official solicitation distribution medium for this solicitation and interested offerors should frequently check this web site for amendments, notices, changes, questions & answers, or any other pertinent information relating to this solicitation. No paper copies or diskette copies of this solicitation will be distributed by the agency. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be available on the above web site on or about January 24, 2000. General informational tours and briefings on the mission and programs of the Pantex Plant will be held on February 2, 2000, for those individuals without a DOE Q clearance. The unclassified briefing will continue on the morning of February 3, 2000. After the February 3, 2000, unclassified briefing, a classified tour of the Pantex Plant will be provided to individuals with a DOE Q clearance. For the classified tour, a maximum of five individuals per Offeror are permitted. A Preproposal Conference will also be held in the afternoon of February 3, 2000, to answer questions concerning the mission and programs of the Pantex Plant as well as the Request for Proposals. No Q clearance is necessary to attend the Preproposal Conference. Only individuals representing Offerors who have submitted the Offeror intent form in L.32 of the solicitation may attend the briefings and tours. E-mail to jdwilliams@doeal.gov or fax to (505) 845-4004. Posted 01/24/00 (A-SN417704). (0024)

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