Radioactive Waste Treatment and Bulk Survey for Release

Added: Feb 03, 2009 10:22 am The United States Department of Energy (DOE) plans to issue Requestfor

Proposal (RFP) DE-RP30-09CC00046 for Radioactive Waste Treatment and Bulk

Survey for Release services.



The services to be provided will be detailed in Section C of the RFP, and

involve (1) Bulk Survey For Release (BSFR) services in accordance with

Nuclear

Regulatory Commission (NRC) or Agreement State requirements; (2) Authorized



Release services for low level waste in accordance with DOE Order 5400.5,

Radiation Protection of the Public and the Environment requirements; (3)

Treatment services for Mixed Low Level Waste (MLLW) and Low Level Waste

(LLW);

and (4) Ancillary Services Associated with Waste Treatment



The RFP will be issued on a full-and-open, unrestricted basis. The North

American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the services to be



provided is 562910 with a small business size standard of 500 employees.

The

Government anticipates the award of multiple Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite



Quantity (IDIQ) contracts as a result of the RFP. After the RFP is

released,

interested parties will be invited to submit proposals which will be

evaluated

by DOE. The RFP will be released to the public on the RFP website at

http://www.emcbc.doe.gov/MLLW_Treatment/index.html. The RFP will also be

available through DOEs Industry Interactive Procurement System (IIPS)

website

at http://e-center.doe.gov and the Federal Business Opportunities website

(FBO)

at https://www.fbo.gov/. Contract(s) will be awarded on the basis of

lowest

price technically acceptable, considering the go-no go factors and price as



explained in Section M of the RFP. The contract award resulting from the

formal RFP is expected to be in or about the fourth quarter of calendar

year

2009.



This notice does not constitute a request for a formal proposal. This

notice

indicates the anticipated issuance of a RFP. It is anticipated that the

solicitation will be issued in the next 90 days. No paper copies of the

solicitation will be made available. Businesses responding to the

solicitation

must do so in accordance with solicitation instructions. DOE will not

issue

another synopsis announcing that an RFP has been posted.



A Draft RFP is available at

http://www.emcbc.doe.gov/MLLW_Treatment/index.html.

Interested parties are hereby invited to thoroughly examine the Draft RFP

and

accompanying website in their entirety and to submit comments and/or

inquiries

in writing via email at mllwtreatment@emcbc.doe.gov. It is requested that

comments and/or inquiries be sent to this email only. The Governments

responses to any comments and/or inquiries received will be posted to the

Draft

RFP website at a later date. Comments and/or inquires are requested within

10

days after the release of this draft RFP.



THE DRAFT RFP IS NOT A FORMAL REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. PROPOSALS ARE NOT BEING



REQUESTED IN RESPONSE TO THE DRAFT RFP AND WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED OR

EVALUATED.