2024-04-11 Frequently Asked Questions_(Cleansed)_58008.pdf

Carbon Pollution-Free Electricity Projects at the Savannah River Site - Final RFQ

RFQ

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Subject/Title Industry Comment/Question Response

3.1(d) 9 Termination Is this in regard to a request for termination for convenience at any time over the period of the Realty Agreement?

3.1(d) 9 Termination If the government terminates the agreement for convenience, is the government prepared to pay costs that the awardee has spent to date?

3.1(d) 9 Termination If the government terminates the agreement for convenience, how will the Government determine fair and reasonable costs for reimbursement. For example, capital expenditures, labor and contract costs, cost of money, etc.?

4.4.2 18 Quality Systems Will DOE require compliance with DOE orders, specficially Quality Assurance given this is a commerical/utility operation?

Ultimately the solar facility will be "outside the fence", so while the expectation is that offerors have formal quality systems in place, compliance with DOE 414 is not expected.

4.4.4 21 Appendix E Can DOE please provide Appendix E - Past Performance Reference Information Form in an editable Word document format?

Yes - the SAM.gov listing now contains a MS Word version of Appendix E that is editable.

4.4 18 Project Plan Have geotechnical stuides been comleted? If so, can DOE SRS please share with proposers?

No geotechnical studies have been performed on the proposed solar sites

4.4.3 20 Return to the Government Will DOE accept replacment RECS?

To count CFE produced at a Federal facility toward the net annual CFE requirement, an agency must obtain and retire the EACs sourced from the on-site CFE generation. In general, replacement RECs would not have been produced onsite at SRS..

4.3 16 Submission of Responses Are title pages, table of contents, glossaries, etc. allowed and if so, are they excluded from the 60-page response limit?

A title page, table of contents, glossary, and index will not count against the 60-page response limit

Appendix A Land Available for Solar Generation

At the Industry Day, Site J was included as an available parcel of land. Is site J available for this RFQ?

It was learned after industry day that the site plan under development at the time included an alternate use for Site J.

Appendix A Land Available for Solar Generation

At the Industry Day, Site C was included as an available parcel of land with a larger acreage than what is included in the RFQ. Is the larger site C parcel available for this RFQ?

It was learned after industry day that the site plan under development at the time included an alternate use for the part of Site C that was north of Hwy SC 125.

Appendix A Parcel Information To supplement the Parcel information provided in Appendix A, can the government provide .kmz files for parcels to assist in the design process and development of our RFQ response?

.KMZ files will not be available prior to the close of the RFQ repsonse period. As stated on page 2 of Appendix A, all of the sites presented are going through the Savannah River Site Use Permitting process. The permitting process may result in a some changes to the boundaries of the site to accomodate restricitions, avoid hazards, etc., so the information in a .KMZ file cannot be guaranteed accurate until the permits are issues.

1 4 SMR and Concentrated Solar Consideration

Would the Department of Energy consider a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) and Hybrid Concentrated Solar Plant integrated with photovoltaic panel technologies for clean electrical production at the Savannah River Site by an offeror, in addition to only the requested photovoltaic solar plant for this RFQ?

The offeror could immediately initiate deployment of PV solar and the licensing activities for an SMR providing a phased clean energy strategy with very attractive economics

This RFQ supports the program established to acheive the goal in Executive Order 14057 of net 100% carbon-free energy usage at SRS by 2030. DOE will host a separate information day in May 2024 for parties interested in promoting other CFE technologies for generation and storage that are further away from commercial readiness..

Termination of the lease and the ramifications of various situations leading up to and following termination will be addressed in lease negotiations with the selected offerors.

DOE SRS Public Release Review No: DOE-ROI-58008 Approved for Public Release

Summary - Industry