LBNF Internal Cryogenics
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- LBNF-357777-JD
- Agency
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Office of Science, Department of Energy
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 332996 Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing
- Place of performance
- Lead, South Dakota, United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is soliciting proposals for the LBNF Internal Cryogenics project, which involves engineering, manufacturing, packing, and delivering internal cryogenics piping systems for the first two Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) cryostats. The scope includes thirty vacuum insulated and uninsulated cryogenic transfer lines and supports to be delivered to the project warehouse near the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Proposals will be evaluated based on technical factors including past experience, technical approach, and quality, with the contract to be awarded on a best-value basis to a responsible offeror. The original proposal deadline was extended multiple times, with the final due date set for December 13, 2024, at 5:00 PM Central Standard Time. Potential bidders were allowed to submit questions through a series of amendments, with the procurement seeking detailed technical and quality compliance documentation.
The solicitation does not include a specific set-aside for small businesses, and no incumbent contractor is explicitly mentioned. The project is part of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which aims to support massive neutrino detectors requiring approximately 17,500 tons of liquid argon per cryostat. Two optional manufacturing phases are included for potential future cryostat work, with a firm-fixed-price contract structure. The total project involves creating cryogenic transfer lines to handle liquid and gaseous argon for processes including purging, cooling, filling, and recirculation. Delivery is specified as DAP (Delivered at Place) to the FRA Warehouse, with no on-site installation required. The contract will be managed under Fermi Research Alliance, LLC's prime contract with the Department of Energy, with the work supporting groundbreaking neutrino research at the Sanford Underground Research Facility.
Notice text
Background: LBNF (http:/lbnf-dune.fnal.gov/) will provide the infrastructure necessary to support the massive neutrino detectors located deep underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will employ four (4) such detectors, housed in cryostats requiring almost 70,000 tons of liquid argon (LAr), about 17,500 tons for each cryostat. DUNE (http://www.dunescience.org/) is expected to achieve transformative discoveries, making definitive determinations of neutrino properties, examining the dynamics of supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, and probing the possibility of proton decay.
Scope of RFP 357777-JD: The Internal Cryogenics serves to transfer liquid and gaseous argon (LAr and GAr, respectively) inside the cryostats for the purposes of purging them of their native atmospheres, cooling them down, filling them with LAr, and recirculating that LAr from dedicated purification equipment outside the scope of this supply. In addition, they serve to transfer the boil-off GAr outside the cryostat for normal recondensation inside the argon condensers and vent in case of a pressure rise over the allowable limit.
The successful bidder shall engineer, manufacture, pack and deliver the Internal cryogenics piping systems for the first two of the LBNF cryostats to the project warehouse in the vicinity of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD.
The project consists of thirty (30) vacuum insulated and uninsulated cryogenic transfer lines and their supports to the cryostat as defined in this technical specification, and the documents and drawings attached to it. For a full description please see the RFP and Statement of Work.
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