Technical Assistance in Support of NRC’s Nuclear Regulatory Research for Materials, Waste, and Reactor Programs
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a presolicitation notice for a requirement entitled, “Technical Assistance in Support of NRC’s Nuclear Regulatory Research for Materials, Waste, and Reactor Programs”
The contractors shall provide technical assistance and expertise in a wide range of technical and scientific disciplines such as: technical reviews of topical reports for reactor design certifications (DCs); early site permits (ESPs); combined license (COL) applications; reactor pre-application activities; limited work authorizations (LWAs); construction permits (CPs); operating licenses (OLs); license actions (i.e., amendments, facility operating license renewals, relief requests, and exemptions); supporting development of regulatory guides (RG) and research information letters (RILs); oversight; and staff infrastructure development. Other activities for materials and waste facilities include, but are not limited to, technical support for technical reviews of license applications, license renewals, license amendments, exemption requests, and decommissioning.
The technical support services listed above are necessary to accomplish work- related activities aimed at ensuring the overall safety, security and adequacy of nuclear power plant and NPUF design, construction, operations and environmental protection.
The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to support this effort.
The period of performance is five (5) years.
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the services required is 541690 for “Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services.” The small business size standard is annual receipts for the preceding three fiscal years not-to-exceed $15M.
Request for Proposal (RFP) No. 31310020R0004 will be posted on, or about, the week of March 9th, 2020 as a full and open competition open to all business size standards. Closing date for receipt of proposals will be 30 days after to solicitation posting.
RFP No. 31310020R0004 will be distributed solely through the Beta System for Award Management (SAM) website, http://www.beta.sam.gov.
All future information about this acquisition, including solicitation amendments will also be distributed solely through the Beta SAM website. Hard copies of the solicitation document and its related documents, as appropriate, will not be available. Because this RFP will be posted on this website, interested parties are instructed NOT to call, send letters, e-mails or faxes requesting the RFP. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring the Beta Sam website to assure that they have the most up-to-date information about this acquisition. The Government will not reimburse interested parties for any cost associated with responding to this business opportunity.
Vendors must be registered with the Beta SAM database to receive a government contract award. Vendors must also be registered in Representations and Certifications Applications (included in Beta SAM). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code applicable (541690 listed above) to this acquisition must be in vendor's Beta SAM registration. Note: Update Beta SAM profile to include all applicable NAICS Codes associated with your company. Vendors may register for Beta SAM online at www.beta.sam.gov or by calling 1-866-606-8220.
31310020R0004 Nuclear Regulatory Commission
2/21/20, 11:46 AM Technical Assistance in Support of NRC’s Nuclear Regulatory Research for Materials, Waste, and Reactor Programs
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 31310020R0004 ENTITLED, "Technical assistance in support of nrc nuclear regulatory research for materials, waste, and reactor programs”
OFFERORS:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting proposals for the project entitled above. The full scope of work anticipated is as set forth in Section C, Statement of Work (SOW). It is our intention by this solicitation to secure the best qualified organization available to perform this project, cost and other factors considered.
Proposals for this requirement may be submitted by all business size standards.
[Note FAR Clause 52.219-6 is included for the sole purposes of allowing orders to be set aside for small business concerns under multiple-award contracts.]
In accordance with FAR 4.1102, offerors are required to be registered in SAM.GOV at the time an offer or quotation is submitted in order to comply with the annual representations and certifications requirements.
If you desire to respond, your proposal should address the proposal requirements set forth in Section L, of the solicitation. All proposals will be evaluated against the evaluation criteria shown in Section M.
Offerors shall provide a proposal to the NRC comprised of a technical and cost/price portion separated into individual proposals and volumes. The proposal shall contain a statement indicating the period of time the proposal is in effect; not less than 90 calendar days from the solicitation due date. The proposal shall be submitted electronically via email to the agency point of contact by the due date and time specified in the solicitation. Electronic versions of the technical proposal shall be formatted in Microsoft Word or pdf. Electronic versions of the cost proposal can be formatted in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or pdf. NRC is not responsible for technical difficulties associated with the transmission of any electronic files to the NRC. Please note that the maximum size for email attachments to the NRC is 10MB, and the NRC cannot guarantee that attachments smaller than 10MB will be successfully delivered. Accordingly, offerors may break down their proposals into smaller sections to stay well below the individual email size limitation. Please note that all emails related to the proposal must be received by the Contracting Officer before the specified due date and time, and that any portion of the proposal received after the due date and time will be considered late and will not be evaluated.
Offerors are solely responsible for ensuring that their proposals are timely received by the Contracting Officer, and are encouraged to submit their proposals early enough to avoid being late. Proposals submissions shall be sent to jeffrey.mitchell@nrc.gov.
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