Analysis of radiological parameters

The South Carolina Department of Environmental Services (SCDES) is seeking a contractor to perform comprehensive radiological parameter analysis for the Savannah River Site's Environmental Monitoring Program. The solicitation requires a vendor to provide complete laboratory services, including documentation, equipment, containers, labels, shipping materials, and transportation for radiological sample analysis. The contractor must determine radioisotope presence and concentration across six environmental media types: water, soil/sediment, vegetation, milk, air filters, and animal tissue/bone, covering 16 specific radiological constituents such as plutonium, americium, cesium, strontium, and uranium isotopes. Mandatory qualifications include SCDES EQC Laboratory Certification or EPA certification to perform radiological analysis using EPA-approved methods, with contractors required to participate in the United States Department of Energy's Mixed Analyte Performance Evaluation Program. The contract will have an initial one-year term beginning December 1, 2024, with four potential one-year renewals. Key submission deadlines include questions due by September 12, 2024, at 12:00 PM ET, and bids due by October 2, 2024, at 12:00 PM ET, with award posting anticipated on October 9, 2024.

The procurement does not explicitly outline specific set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises, but it does include provisions for South Carolina resident vendor preferences and in-state subcontractor preferences under Section 11-35-1524 of the South Carolina Code of Laws. Offerors must provide in-state office information if claiming applicable preferences. While no incumbent vendor is specified, the solicitation requires extensive documentation from bidders, including business history, financial statements for the current and preceding two years, three comparable contract references, laboratory procedures, facility blueprints, staff resumes, and three years of annual method detection limit studies. The pricing structure for this contract is based on a unit price model, with bidders required to complete a detailed spreadsheet of analysis costs for different radiological parameters across environmental media. Though a specific total contract value is not disclosed, the comprehensive nature of the analysis and the potential for a five-year contract term suggest a significant procurement with potentially substantial financial scope for the selected vendor.