LongāBaseline Neutrino Facility Near Site Conventional Facilities Independent Design Review
Background and Introduction
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA) will provide facilities to enable a world-class program in neutrino physics that can measure fundamental physical parameters, explore physics beyond the Standard Model, and better elucidate the nature of matter and anti-matter. The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) Project will involve building a new high intensity neutrino beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) aimed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), 1,300 km away, where the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) international scientific community will build a neutrino detector. The LBNF/DUNE Project will be optimized for precision measurement of neutrino oscillations with the goal of searching for charge parity-violation in the neutrino sector, as well as make other precision oscillation measurements.
The LBNF/DUNE Project will construct the Near Site Conventional Facilities (NSCF) at Fermilab on the north side of Fermilab’s Main Injector, in the southwest corner of the laboratory. The LBNF NSCF main construction scope includes the buildings, enclosures, and site infrastructure that will house and support the LBNF Beamline and DUNE Near Detector, including the Pre-Target beamline facilities, Target Complex, Absorber Complex, Decay Region, Near Detector Complex, and project-wide Site Work to support the facility and experiment. This construction will involve deep surface excavations, protection of existing buried structures, deep foundations, complex concrete structures including mass concrete placements, shaft construction, rock excavation and rock support, geosynthetic water barrier systems, mechanical-electrical-plumbing fitout, utilities, access roads, grading and drainage, and other site improvements.
LBNF NSCF is a large, complicated underground project with a large amount of specialty concrete (over 100,000 cubic yards). The scope is dominated by the need to protect the environment from the adverse effects of radiation leading to the following requirements: the use of conventional materials in unconventional ways to construct a barrier between the conventional facilities and the groundwater; placements of massive amounts of radiation shielding concrete in a manner that minimizes cracking that would serve as paths for radiation; earthwork performed in a manner that allows for construction of a high-quality groundwater barrier and ensures its integrity.
Scope of Services
The fundamental purpose of the Independent Design Review (IDR), commonly known in the industry as a “Peer Review,” is to review design documentation with a detailed, unbiased, analytical approach. An IDR shall occur at the completion of the NSCF preliminary and final design phases. Design documentation will include, but is not limited to, drawings, specifications, calculations, and design reports. The IDR team is composed of resources outside the project team.
Areas of focus include:
Quality of the design
Design is sufficiently developed for the stage of the project
Design documents comply with the design criteria
Operational and functional objectives are met
Interfaces identified and compatible
Identify risks to the design
The IDR team shall:
Review the documents for compliance with the Project program and purpose as well as with accepted standards of professional and technical practices.
The IDR is to be for objective acceptability, and not personal preferences. The IDR team shall refrain from recommending or advocating changes that are merely personal preference.
Recommend modifications and revisions as appropriate for the improvement of the Project.
Prepare and present a comment matrix of the IDR team’s technical findings when review of the Documents is complete.
Prepare and present a written report of the IDR team’s findings and recommendations when review of the Documents is complete
Tasks and Estimated Schedule
The design will occur in two design phases, “Preliminary Design” and “Final Design,” each with a series of progress deliverables. An IDR shall occur at the completion of each design phase. Pricing will be Firm-Fixed Price for each Task.
Task 1 Preliminary Design IDR: March-May 2020
Task 2 Final Design IDR: September-November 2021
For more details regarding deliverables and meetings, please see Attachment J-3 of the RFP.
Questions
Questions and inquiries are to be submitted via eāmail to Chris Allen at callen@fnal.gov no later than December 20, 2019.
LBNF-301510-CA Department of Energy Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. The solicitation number is HAAF175TH0052_52 and is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ), unless otherwise indicated herein. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2021-03. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 236210 with a small business size standard of $36.50M. This requirement is a Small Business Set-Aside and only qualified sellers may submit bids. The solicitation pricing on www.UnisonMarketplace.com will start on the date this solicitation is posted, and, unless otherwise displayed at www.UnisonMarketplace.com, will end on: 2021-02-19 15:00:00.0 Eastern Time. This time supersedes the Offers Due Time listed above. FOB Destination shall be Savannah , GA 31409The MICC End User requires the following items, Brand Name or Equal, to the following: LI 001: ā¢ Interior of tunnel will look like a sub-terreanan faƧade. The faƧade will replicate a karez tunnel system for 400' and an industrial tunnel system. These facades must be able to stand up to regular and heavy training use without breaking or falling apart. Frequent turns and bends massively limit the ability to communicate, and disorient Rangers that traverse through the tunnel. The tunnel traverse up, down, left, and right at points to aid in disorientation. Portions of the tunnel will be build out to become a combined space environment, causing the person crouch, crawl, squeeze between a wall in order to get past an obstacle. The need to establish and
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Movement Many sub-t environments include narrow passages,
fallen debris, and other areas of entanglement and confined space.
While these areas are challenging in many regards, they especially
increase the difficulty of providing Tactical Casualty Combat Care
and conducting Tactical Evacuation. To replicate this difficulty, the Sub-T Trainer must include multiple areas of entanglement and
confined space Durability To be good stewards of tax-payer dollars
and provide maximum training over time to 1/75, it is of utmost
importance that the interior facades are extremely durable. Rangers
need to be able to train as they fight and the facility interior will not be used gently. These facades must be able to stand up to regular
and heavy use without breaking or falling apart. ā¢ RF-abatement In
accordance with the Sub-T Requirements (above), the material used
for the facades will provide some RF-abatement beyond the skin of
the container. If determined to be necessary, RF-abating material
layers and/or paints could be used, but these are very expensive
and will significantly drive up the total cost. Therefore, a material with native RF-abatement will provide overall cost savings. Final design subject to approval after site walkthrough. All construction will occur above ground in order to simulate an underground facility. Tunnel will be built in 40' shipping containers that have been welded together to create an outer structure. The containers are on site, but need to be welded together., 1, EA;LI 002: Delivery and installation to 31409, 1, EA;Solicitation and Buy Attachments***Question Submission: Interested Offerers must submit any questions concerning the solicitation at the earliest time possible to enable the Buyer to respond. Questions must be submitted by using the 'Submit a Question' feature at www.UnisonMarketplace.com. 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