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M -- MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT (WIPP) NEAR CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO SOL DE-RP04-00AL66444 POC Point of Contact: James L. Robbins 505-845-4320 . WEB: WIPP Solicitation web site, http://www.doeal.gov/cpd/wipp/wippdefault.htm. E-MAIL: James Robbins, Contracting Officer, jrobbins@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 Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico. 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. WIPP is a sixteen (16) square mile (10,240 acres) site owned by the Government and Contractor-operated. The WIPP includes surface facilities and a geological repository located two-thousand-one-hundred-fifty (2,150) feet below the surface. The Property Protection Area (PPA) at WIPP encloses approximately thirty-five (35) acres, and includes the majority of the buildings and structures at WIPP. The WIPP is operated under the direction of the DOE Carlsbad Area Office (CAO). The DOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management (EM) provides program direction to the CAO. The DOE Albuquerque Operations Office (DOE-AL) provides administrative support to the CAO. Other DOE facilities and national laboratories are funded by CAO to perform specific tasks related to the WIPP mission. The disposal phase for WIPP began on March 26, 1999, when the first shipment of waste was received. The disposal of mixed-transuranic (TRU) waste was authorized with the issuance of a Hazardous Waste Facility Permit by the New Mexico Environment Department. This permit was issued on October 28, 1999 and became effective on November 27, 1999. The primary focus for this contract is to protect human health and the environment by safe management and disposal of defense generated transuranic (TRU) waste. 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. Technology leveraging and local and regional economic development are significant themes of this solicitation. The value of the contract for the basic five-year award period will be approximately $575 million. 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/wipp/wippdefault.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 draft solicitation will be available on the above web site on or about February 1, 2000 and public comments are due to the agency by February 18, 2000. All questions must be E-mailed to jrobbins@doeal.gov. Answers will be posted on the web site by the agency as they are developed. It is anticipated that the final solicitation will be available on the web site on or about March 1, 2000. Posted 01/27/00 (D-SN419565). (0027)

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