The Energy Department has extended the deadline for responses to its small business sources-sought notice for Idaho National Laboratory remediation work by one week, until May 8.
The extension is one of several modifications posted on the FedBizOps website since the initial market research notice was posted on April 10.
The Energy Department is researching whether small business could do some work now provided for DOE and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by INL contractors Fluor Idaho and Spectra Tech. Electronic copies of capability statements should be emailed to [email protected] by 5 p.m. ET on May 8.
Lori Sehlhorst is the DOE contracting officer and point of contact, at [email protected].
The Energy Department has also posted elements of scope for the NRC-related work. The tasks include receiving, storing, and transferring spent nuclear fuel in keeping with NRC and DOE rules. Management, operation, and physical security of the Fort Saint Vrain dry cask storage facility in Colorado are also part of the work. Other tasks include oversight of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 waste storage pad at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center.
That work is now done by Tennessee-based Spectra Tech under a potential $41 million contract started in 2016, which could run through March 2021.
The procurement research will help DOE assess the idea of combining the Nuclear Regulatory Commission-related operations into the contract for Radioactive Waste Management Complex (RWMC) closure as part of the Idaho Cleanup Project.
Fluor Idaho oversees the Idaho Cleanup Project under a five-year, $1.6 billion agreement, which runs through May 2021.
The April sources-sought notice is not a request for proposals. The small business notice is a follow-up to a more general request for information issued by DOE in November.
