A01_Rev_Performance_Work_Statement_Senior_Health_Physicist.pdf

Performance Work Statement Certified Senior Health Physicist

Background: This contract request is for one Senior Health Physicist to support and ensure ECBC is in compliance with the ECBC Radiation Safety Program (RSP) and ECBC’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) License requirements. The RSP assures safe working conditions, compliance with Department of Defense (DoD), the Army rules/regulations and is critical in maintaining the broad scope NRC material license.

Requirements: The Contractor shall provide the following task:

a. Health Physics Support Services will be used to provide ECBC with a contractor Senior Health Physicist to assist and consult the ECBC Radiation Safety Officer/Laser Safety Officer with surveys, inspections, audits, inventory control, waste handling, decommissioning, dosimetry program, shipping and receiving, accidents or incidents, license renewals, training, sample analysis and x-ray producing devices. The Senior Health Physicist will be required to analyze/identify unknown radiological waste, consult on radiological research projects and consult on indoor and outdoor class 4 laser research projects.

b. The Senior Health Physicist will attend and participate in the Radiation

Control Committee meetings.

c. The contractor will provide a Senior Health Physicist for approximately 8 to 9 hours a month and is based on one-eight hour day on-site and up to one hour for phone/email communications if needed, during the month.

d. The contractor will provide a senior health physicist on-site on normal Federal work-days, during normal ECBC work hours. Contractors cannot be on-site during federal holidays or when no government personnel are available on-site. The Contracting Officer Representative (COR) will determine the work schedule in consideration of the contractor’s work schedule and the needs of

ECBC.

Personnel Qualifications: In order for the candidate to support the ECBC Radiation Program, the Contractor shall provide personnel that meet the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in health physics or any other of the physical or biological sciences.

• At least ten years experience in operational health physics or radiation safety program management.

• Previously appointed the Radiation Safety Officer for a military broad scope NCR license.

• At least 5 years of experience with U.S. Army Radiation Program requirements.

• Certified by the American Board of Health Physics

• At least 5 years of experience with ionizing and non-ionizing radiation including industrial x-ray producing devices (cabinet, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and all lasers classifications.

• At least 5 years of experience with NRC license renewal process.

• At least 5 years of experience with decommissioning procedures following

Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual

(MARRSIM).

Deliverables: The Contractor shall send the COR a monthly report via email detailing the work completed by the Senior Health Physicist during the month. The report must be sent via email for each month. The report is due to the COR within 10 business days of the end of the month.

Period of Performance: This requirement will have a twelve month base period with two twelve-month option periods.

Travel: None is anticipated.

Place of Duty: ECBC at Aberdeen Proving Grounds (APG) – Edgewood, Maryland.

Government Furnished Equipment/Support: The government will provide all necessary materials and tools to include: work station equipment with computer, Government telephone, internet service, access to copier and fax support; access to government database and other regulations and files pertinent to the above duties. Office and laboratory facilities for the contractor’s on-site Senior Health Physicist will be provided by the Government.

Training Requirements:

1) AT Level l training. This standard language is for contractor employees with an area of performance within an Army controlled installation, facility or area. All contractor employees, to include subcontractor employees, requiring access to Army installations, facilities and controlled access areas shall complete AT Level I awareness training within 30 calendar days after contract start date or effective date of incorporation of this requirement into the contract, whichever is applicable. The contractor shall submit certificates of completion for each affected contractor employee and subcontractor employee to the COR or to the contracting officer, if a COR is not assigned within 30 calendar days after completion of training by all employees and subcontractor personnel.

AT Level I awareness training is available at the following website: http://iko.iten.mil.

2) iWATCH Training. This standard language is for contractor employees with an area of performance within an Army controlled installation, facility or area. The contractor and all associated subcontractors shall brief all employees on the local iWATCH program (training standards provided by the requiring activity ATO). This local developed training will be used to inform employees of the types of behavior to watch for and instruct employees to report suspicious activity to the CO. This training shall be completed within 30 calendar days of contract award and within 30 calendar days of new employees commencing performance with the results reported to the COR NLT 30 calendar days after contract award.

http://iko.iten.mil/

3) For information assurance (IA)/information technology (IT) training. All contractor employees and associated subcontractor employees must complete the DoD lA awareness training before issuance of network access and annually thereafter. All contractor employees working lA/lT functions must comply with DoD and Army training requirements in DoDD 8570.01, DoD 8570.01-M and AR 25-2 which must be completed upon contract awards.

4) For contracts that require OPSEC training. Per AR 530-1, the contractor employees must complete Level I OPSEC Awareness training. New employees must be trained with 30 calendar days of their reporting for duty and annually thereafter.