FINAL COPY ERDS - Sources Sought Notice - 8.26.2024.docx

MARKET RESEARCH TEMPLATE PACKAGE

Version Control Date: June 17, 2013

THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC) is issuing this Sources Sought Notice as a means of conducting market research or as a market survey to determine the availability of potential qualified vendors with the technical capability to provide all management, supervision, administration, and labor for the Emergency Response Data System (ERDS).

Services are to be provided to the NRC Headquarters location in Rockville, Maryland. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541519.

THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for sources and vendor information does not constitute a request for proposal; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred.

The purpose of this announcement is to provide potential sources the opportunity to submit information regarding their capabilities to perform work for the NRC free of conflict of interest (COI). For information on NRC COI regulations, visit NRC Acquisition Regulation Subpart 2009.5 (http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/contracting/48cfr-ch20.html).

All interested parties, including all categories of small businesses (small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, 8(a) firms, women-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and HUBZone small businesses) are invited to submit a response to the market research questions below. The capabilities package submitted by a vendor should demonstrate the firm's ability, capability, and responsibility to perform the principal components of work listed in this Sources Sought Notice. The package should also include past performance/experience regarding projects of similar scope listing the project title, general description, the dollar value of the contract, and name of the company, agency, or government entity for which the work was performed.

Organizations responding to this market survey should keep in mind that only focused and pertinent information is requested. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. Submission of additional materials such as glossy brochures or videos is discouraged.

Background

System Overview:

The primary function of ERDS is to facilitate the transmission of nuclear power plant data to the NRC in several scenarios:

· Nuclear power plant declared events

· Drills or exercises, and

· Quarterly testing In most cases ERDS operates on-demand, and the system is only activated when one of the above scenarios is initiated. However, some nuclear power plants have elected to transmit their respective critical safe function data parameters continuously (24x7). This requires coordinating system maintenance and communication of events occurring at the NRC that will impact nuclear power plants’ connections to the NRC. The hardware that comprises the ERDS solution consists of communications equipment from CISCO and servers and workstations from Dell.

The core application software for the ERDS solution is OSIsoft PI, a commercial-off-the-shelf product.

Capabilities Sought

The NRC is seeking to identify sources that are capable of providing:

· Maintenance of the existing ERDS hardware and software to ensure operability.

· Technical support so that the ERDS remains stable, reliable, and continues to be fully functional in its current operational environment.

· Management of the ERDS configuration and keeping system documentation updated.

· Maintenance of the ERDS to be in compliance with Federal IT Security, National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), and NRC standards and policies.

· Training to ERDS users.

· Operations and maintenance support services for the ERDS Virtual Private Network (VPN) devices at all NRC licensee sites.

· Maintenance of services for all elements of the communication including router and VPN appliance equipment.

· Technical support to all users authorized to use ERDS.

· Maintenance of services to address Data Point Library changes.

· Maintenance of system and security administration and providing high-quality system related help desk support to ERDS users.

· Maintenance and administration of disaster recovery/backup system support for continuation of operations.

· Securing the system consistent with Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and NRC security requirements.

Staff Required Skillset:

The following is relevant experience and knowledge pertaining to key on-site personnel:

· Microsoft Windows server software

· Microsoft Active Directory

· Microsoft SharePoint Services

· Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)

· VMware virtual solutions installations, hardening, and management

· OSIsoft PI Interface

· OSIsoft Data Archive historian high availability installation and management solutions

· OSIsoft PI AF hierarchical design and asset management solution

· OSIsoft PI Vision visualization tool and image dashboard creation and management

· Digicert digital certificate management and delivery

· Network design, network protocols, CISCO routers (configuration and management)

· DELL ESXi hosting hardware installation, hardening, and management

· NetApp ONTAP data management and cluster Storage Array Network (SAN) solutions installation, hardening, and management

· Microsoft SQL Server

· Veritas Backup Exec backup and restoration solutions

· Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) management solution

· Secure Web Portal design and implementation

· FISMA and application certification and accreditation

· Help desk support

· Applicable Federal Standards, Policies, and Procedures

· At least one staff member with experience and knowledge in nuclear power plant design and operations, nuclear power plant sensors and sensor data, and nuclear power industry and the regulatory environment pertaining to ERDS.

HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

If your organization has the capability and capacity to perform, as a prime contractor, one or more of the services described in this notice, then please respond to this notice and provide written responses to the following information. Please do not include any proprietary or otherwise sensitive information in the response, and do not submit a proposal. Proposals submitted in response to this notice will not be considered.

1. Organization name, address, email address, Web site address and telephone number.

2. Organization size with respect to NAICS code identified in this notice (i.e., "small" or "other than small"). If your organization is a small business under the aforementioned NAICS code, provide the small business type (i.e., small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business, economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, 8(a), or HUBZone small business). Specify all that apply.

3. Indicate how your organization would provide on-site staff at NRC HQ and if on-site staff are capable to travel to NRC’s backup site, if needed by the NRC. Travel is anticipated to be no more than four times a year.

4. Separately and distinctly describe which of the required capabilities listed above that your organization possesses and indicate your organization's role (prime contractor, first tier subcontractor, and/or supplier) in related contracts. Please also provide the contract number, contract type, customer name, address and point of contact phone number and email address, contract value, thorough description of supplies and services included in the scope of that contract, indication of how they differ from the required capabilities described in this notice, period of performance (for services) or delivery date (for products), and any other relevant information.

5. Describe your organization’s experience working with the OSIsoft PI software.

6. Indicate whether your organization offers any of the required capabilities described in this notice on one or more of your company's own Federal Government contracts (i.e., GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract or Government wide Acquisition Contracts) that the NRC could order from and, if so, which services are offered. Also, provide the contract number(s) and indicate what is currently available for ordering from each of those contract(s).

7. Provide a standard, non-proprietary commercial price list or similar standard non-proprietary commercial pricing information for how your company sells, as a prime contractor, required capabilities described in this notice that your organization has experience providing. Also, indicate what is included in that pricing.

8. Is your organization currently performing or have in the past performed same or similar services as those listed above for any of the licensees regulated by the NRC? If so, which licensees? See http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/licensing.html for more information on NRC licensing.

9. Has your organization previously faced organizational conflict of interest issues with NRC? If so, what were they and how were they mitigated or resolved?

Interested organizations responding to this Sources Sought Synopsis are encouraged to structure capability statements in the order of the area of consideration noted above. All capability statements sent in response to this notice must be submitted electronically, via e-mail, to Jenny Ford, at jennifer.ford@nrc.gov, either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), within 15 days from the date of publication of this notice.

DISCLAIMER AND NOTES: Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization’s potential capability and capacity to perform the subject work. All responses to this notice must be 10MB or smaller in size; otherwise, the NRC server will reject the response. Respondents may submit more than one response in order to stay under the 10MB threshold.

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