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M -- MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF KANSAS CITY PLANT SOL DE-RP04-00AL66850 DUE 062600 POC Point of Contact: Michael Frietze 505-845-6158 Michael Frietze 505-845-6158. WEB: Nuclear Weapons Plants Solicitations, http://www.doeal.gov/cpd/nwpp/nwppdefault.htm. E-MAIL: Juan D. Williams, Executive Secretariat, 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 Kansas City Plant. 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 term "Kansas City Plant" as used herein includes several Government-owned or leased facilities, along with a variety of satellite operations. The primary facility is located in Kansas City, Missouri, and consists of a Government-owned nuclear weapon component production plant that manufactures electrical, electronic, mechanical, electro-mechanical, plastic, and metal components. Satellite operations include Government-owned or leased facilities located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that provide support to other DOE organizations associated with nuclear weapons activities; support operations in Los Alamos, New Mexico; support operations at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas; and support operations at several training and communications sites. The Kansas City, Missouri, plant is situated on approximately 140 acres within the city limits in a highly developed area approximately 12 miles south of downtown Kansas City. The plant is dominated by a large manufacturing building of 2.2 million gross square feet, and thirty-six other buildings with a total of approximately 0.9 million gross square feet. As of February 1, 2000, the Kansas City, Missouri plant employment was approximately 2800 people, and the Albuquerque employment was approximately 250 people. With the end of the Cold War, DOE has made major programmatic decisions that affect the current and future operation of the Kansas City Plant. 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 Kansas City Plant would be the primary U.S. site for the manufacture of nonnuclear components for nuclear weapons. In performing its mission the facility must closely interact with other production plants and design laboratories in the Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC), other DOE Offices (such as Headquarters (HQ) and Operations Offices) and numerous other organizations including the State of Missouri. The Kansas City Plant is operated under the direction of the DOE Kansas City Area Office. The challenges facing all NWC facilities are to have a balanced nuclear weapons complex workload, a modern integrated complex with unique and interdependent facilities, an operationally-ready state-of-the-art production capability (efficient, agile, responsive, streamlined), and a stimulating work environment to attract and retain a workforce with the required technical skills and capabilities. The value of the contract for the basic five-year award period will be approximately $1.75 billion. In order to actively support the Government's initiative to enhance the use of electronic commerce in the federal acquisition process, the solicitation has been made available 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. General informational tours and briefings on the mission and programs of the Kansas City Plant will be held on May 23, 2000, for those individuals without a DOE Q clearance. On May 24, 2000, a classified tour of the Kansas City, Missouri operations will be provided. On May 31, 2000, a classified tour of some of the satellite operations in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will be provided. For each classified tour, a maximum of five individuals, per Offeror, are permitted. 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 05/10/00 (D-SN453583). (0131)

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