Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project - Final RFP

Added: Oct 28, 2008 12:28 pm The U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office, incoordination with

the Office of Environmental Management, is seeking a contractor to perform

waste processing at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) at

DOEs

Idaho Site near Idaho Falls, Idaho.



The purpose of this contract will be to process and dispose of the

transuranic

waste and mixed low-level waste at the Idaho Sites Transuranic Storage

Area

(TSA). This is primarily to ensure compliance with the 1995 Idaho

Settlement

Agreement and the INL Site Treatment Plan regarding treating the waste and

removing it from the state of Idaho. The contractor selected will be

responsible for performing the work necessary to retrieve, characterize,

treat

(as necessary), package, and otherwise process and dispose of the estimated



total of 33,600m3 of waste at the AMWTP. The end objective is to

disposition

all of the waste at an appropriate disposal facility. The wastes include

DOE

laboratory and processing wastes from Rocky Flats and various DOE

facilities.

The wastes are stored in drums, boxes, and bins at the Idaho Sites TSA.

The

wastes may consist of mixtures of various solid materials, including paper,



cloth, plastic, rubber, glass, graphite, bricks, concrete, metals, nitrate

salts, process sludge, miscellaneous components, and some absorbed liquids.



The majority of the AMWTP waste contains both Resource Conservation and

Recovery Act (RCRA) constituents and radioactive constituents and is

therefore

mixed transuranic and mixed low level waste.



The contract type will be a Cost-Plus-Award-Fee (CPAF) with

performance-based

incentives. The solicitation will be for full and open competition. This

solicitation contemplates significant small business participation,

recommending 46.4% of the overall procurement dollars go to small business.



The anticipated period of performance is six years, from October 1, 2009,

through September 30, 2015.