Fire Suppression Services - RFI/EOI for Life-Cycle Requirements of Fire Systems

The Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration is preparing to procure life-cycle fire suppression services across three facilities in Nevada and California, with responses to this RFI/EOI due by August 24, 2026.

MSTS, operator of the Nevada National Security Sites and related DOE facilities, is structuring the procurement into three functional pools: Inspection, Testing and Maintenance (IT&M) Services; Architect/Engineer and Fire Protection Engineering Design Services; and Design-Build Modernization work. Work is performed at the North Las Vegas Facility, Remote Sensing Lab at Nellis Air Force Base, and NNSS in Mercury, Nevada, with administrative oversight at these locations.

The IT&M Services pool carries an estimated value of $4 million to $6 million over five years, structured as a hybrid contract combining fixed-price scheduled maintenance with time-and-materials emergency response requiring four-hour mobilization. The A/E and FPE Design Services pool and Design-Build pool are each structured as five-year IDIQs with fixed-price task orders, with anticipated maximum ceiling of $5 million across all pools over five years and a maximum of $500,000 per task order per year for Scopes 2 and 3. MSTS anticipates approximately eight task orders per year. Single awards are currently planned for the A/E and Design-Build pools, though multiple awards are possible. Installed systems use FM-200 and FK-5-1-12 suppression agents.

Personnel must be U.S. citizens and meet NFPA 72 and NFPA 13 requirements, including journeyman sprinkler fitters and factory-trained fire alarm technicians. Security clearances are not required, though uncleared personnel cannot access Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities or Vault-Type Rooms. A/E firms that perform design services are prohibited from participating as subcontractors or joint-venture partners on subsequent Design-Build contracts for the same systems. For construction and design-build work exceeding $150,000, 100 percent performance and payment bonds are required; construction work between $35,000 and $150,000 requires payment bonds at 100 percent. Responses must be submitted in PDF format not exceeding 20 pages to Amy Justice at JUSTICAL@NV.DOE.GOV. Written questions were due July 21, 2026.