Combined Synopsis Pre-Solicitation Notice DOE PPPO TSS.pdf

United States Department of Energy

Synopsis

Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Technical Support Services Procurement

This notice is considered to be a synopsis in accordance with FAR Subpart 5.2 for the

Portsmouth Paducah Project Office (PPPO) Technical Support Services (TSS) procurement.

Within 15 to 45 days from the date that this notice is published, the U.S. Department of Energy

(DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) anticipates the issuance of a Draft Request for Proposal (RFP), 89303324REM000120, for the PPPO TSS procurement. The PPPO requires a TSS Contractor to provide technical and administrative support to assist the DOE with the oversight and management of: the clean-up activities, all phases of on-site contractor operations, including general construction activities and On-Site Waste Disposal Facility (OSWDF) site, geotechnical and design documents at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP)/site in

Pike County, Ohio and the Paducah GDP/site in Paducah, Kentucky, services for Operations and

Site Mission Support (OSMS) located in Pike County, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky, and the

PPPO located in Lexington, Kentucky, to provide various technical engineering support functions, information technology infrastructure and cyber security support, Safeguards and

Security (S&S) oversight support, and general administrative support for all of the PPPO sites.

The PPPO TSS Contractor provides technical and administrative support to assist the DOE with the oversight and management across all five of the following major prime contracts in support the PPPO EM Mission:

(1) Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D) Project;

(2) Paducah Deactivation and Remediation (D&R) Project;

(3) Operations and Site Mission Support (OSMS) (consist of the Depleted Uranium

Hexafluoride Conversion Project [DUF6] operations as well as other ongoing production and mission support activities);

(4) Portsmouth Infrastructure Support Services; and

(5) Paducah Infrastructure Support Services.

The PPPO TSS procurement will be conducted as a Small Business (SB) Set-Aside Competition.

The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item or service using FAR Part 12.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is

562910, Environmental Remediation Services, and the small business size standard is 1000 employees. Further information concerning size standards can be found at the following website: https://www.sba.gov/federal-contracting/contracting-guide/size-standards.

The new contract resulting from this acquisition will replace the contract awarded to Enterprise

Technical Assistance Services, Inc. (E-TAS), which will expire March 31, 2025. The current

E-TAS contract can be referenced at https://www.energy.gov/pppo/pppo-contracts.

A dedicated webpage has been established for the PPPO TSS procurement. All news/announcements, documents (including the Draft and Final RFP), questions/answers, pre-solicitation conference information, and related links will be posted to the following webpage:

https://www.sba.gov/federal-contracting/contracting-guide/size-standards https://www.energy.gov/pppo/pppo-contracts https://www.emcbc.doe.gov/SEB/PPPOTSS/. The Draft and Final RFP will also be posted to the

Fedconnect website at: www.fedconnect.net.

DOE intends to conduct a virtual pre-solicitation conference for this procurement. Interested parties are encouraged to review the Draft RFP prior to the virtual pre-solicitation conference. At this time, DOE has tentatively scheduled the virtual pre-solicitation conference to be held in early January 2024, with industry feedback on the Draft RFP due thereafter. Interested parties should continue to monitor the PPPO TSS Procurement website for specific details at:

https://www.emcbc.doe.gov/SEB/PPPOTSS/.

No additional synopsis will be released prior to issuing the Draft or Final RFP.

Contracting Office Address:

U.S. Department of Energy

Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC)

550 Main Street, Room 7-010

Cincinnati, OH 45202

Place of Performance:

The services specified by this Contract shall be performed at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion

Plant site in Paducah, Kentucky, the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant site in Pike County, Ohio, and the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) in Lexington, Kentucky.

Primary Point of Contact:

Lori Sehlhorst

Contracting Officer lori.sehlhorst@emcbc.doe.gov pppotss2@emcbc.doe.gov https://www.emcbc.doe.gov/SEB/PPPOTSS/ http://www.fedconnect.net/ https://www.emcbc.doe.gov/SEB/PPPOTSS/ https://www.emcbc.doe.gov/SEB/PPPOTSS/ mailto:lori.sehlhorst@emcbc.doe.gov mailto:pppotss2@emcbc.doe.gov