DRAFT RFP FOR NEW HANFORD 222-S LAB CONTRACT COMING SOON

A draft Request for Proposals for the new contract to manage Hanford’s 222-S Laboratory is set to be issued within the next “15 to 30 days,” the Department of Energy said yesterday. The new contract is being set-aside for small businesses, and is expected to be “a hybrid contract that includes fixed provide with award fee and labor hour contract line items (CLINS),” DOE said in a notice, adding that the new contract is set to run for up to five years, with one two-year base period and three one-year options. A final RFP for the new contract is “tentatively anticipated” to be issued within 60 days “in or around the 3^rd quarter of fiscal year 2014,” with an award to be made “in or about” the fourth quarter of FY 2014, DOE said.