Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
1/10/2014
The Department of Energy late last week released a final Request for Task Proposals for environmental monitoring and D&D work at the Energy Technology Engineering Center site in California. The procurement, which is being conducted under DOE’s nationwide small business set-aside indefinite quantity/indefinite delivery contracts, is open to contract holders able to re-certify under a 500 employee size standard when proposals are due. DOE is planning a pre-proposal site tour on Jan. 14, questions are due Jan. 21 and bids are due Feb. 25.
Environmental monitoring work at the site is currently performed by Boeing, which owns the broader Santa Susana Field Laboratory where ETEC is located, under a contract set to expire by Sept. 30, 2014. When DOE first released a draft RTP for the work in September, it said it had hoped to issue a final version by Nov. 23. However, in late November DOE released an updated draft RTP, and stated that the planned release date of the final RTP was delayed due to ongoing discussions with Boeing (WC Monitor, Vol. 24 No. 47). Those talks led to a change in the final RTP. “The DOE and Landowner Access Agreement was updated as a result of DOE negotiations with The Boeing Company,” DOE stated in the final RTP cover letter.
The draft RTP contains several other notable changes from the draft version. That includes changes for the contract line item (CLIN) structure for the D&D option to “consolidate the non-radiological facilities from three separate CLINs into one CLIN. DOE also provided a sequencing of the order in which D&D option CLINs will be exercised,” the cover letter states. The period of performance clause was also changed to “require the Contractor to fill in a completion schedule for each D&D CLIN based on number of months,” it adds. Additionally there were some new elements to the performance work statement scope, including one requiring activities necessary under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000.
