U.S. Department of Energy, Office of River Protection, H6-60, P.O. Box 450, Richland, WA 99352

Y -- DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE HANFORD TANK WASTE TREATMENT AND IMMOBILIZATION PLANT SOL DE-RP27-00RV14136 POC Michael K. Barrett, Contracting Officer, Michael_K_Barrett@rl.gov,509-373-4143 WEB: click here to download a copy of the RFP, http://www.hanford.gov/orp/procure/solicitations.html. E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via, Michael_K_Barrett@rl.gov. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of River Protection, is seeking competitive proposals from the private sector to design and construct a treatment and immobilization plant for the River Protection Project (RPP) at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington. The RPP is a complex, large-scale and ongoing project to store, characterize, retrieve, treat, immobilize, and store/dispose the hazardous and highly-radioactive tank waste at the Hanford site. Treatment and immobilization services for the Hanford tank waste were previously planned to be acquired under the Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) Privatization contract. This CBD Notice updates the original CBD Notice for expressions of interest issued on May 23, 2000. As part of the privatization approach for TWRS, DOE established a decision-making process and required specific deliverables to be submitted under the TWRS Privatization contract. DOE has made the decision to discontinue the privatization approach for TWRS after completing a careful review of the April 2000 deliverables submitted under the TWRS Privatization contract. DOE: 1) has terminated the TWRS Privatization contract with BNFL, Inc., 2) is continuing the current design effort under its contract with the Hanford tank waste management contractor, CH2M HILL Hanford Group (CHG), during the short bridging period until contract award can be made for a replacement contractor and responsibility for transition is completed, and 3) is conducting a new source selection and intends to award a new contract for design and construction of the treatment and immobilization plant. CHG will not participate in the competition for the design and construction management of the treatment and immobilization plant as an offeror, subcontractor, team member, or consultant to any offerors. Subcontractors and consultants engaging in work being performed by CHG in this role will not be permitted to participate as the primary offeror or as exclusive team member to offerors under this solicitation. DOE has conducted a pre-solicitation conference and one-on-one meetings with interested parties from industry to improve the acquisition strategy and is committed to conduct a streamlined acquisition process that provides for full and open competition for this design and construction contract. DOE has established an acquisition website at http://www.hanford.gov/orp/procure. This website will be the sole distribution medium for the solicitation and will be used to provide acquisition information, including project background, the project acquisition plan, solicitation, any amendments or clarifications, and other related information. Interested offerors are strongly encouraged to frequently check this website for new information. No paper copies or diskette copies of this solicitation will be distributed by the agency. This acquisition will be conducted using a combination of written proposals and oral presentations. The major schedule milestones have been tentatively set as follows: Draft Solicitation 07/28/00; Offeror Questions/Comments Due 08/11/00; Final Solicitation 08/30/00; Written Proposals 09/29/00; Oral Presentations 10/13/00; Contract Award 01/15/01. Questions or inquiries about this solicitation should be sent only via e-mail to Michael K. Barrett, Contracting Officer, Source Evaluation Board at Michael_K_Barrett@rl.gov. No further CBD announcements of this solicitation will be made. Posted 07/07/00 (W-SN472536). (0189)

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