The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is extending the proposal deadline for a potential $120 million small business Technical Assistance Contract solicitation until April 25, the agency said this week.
The prior deadline, from a request for proposals (RFP) issued last month, was April 18. But that conflicts with Easter, said one unidentified party in a question-and-answer document posted Monday by DOE. The agency said it would push the deadline back a week.
The Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center is shopping for technical assistance contractors at nuclear cleanup office at: the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico; the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York; the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project in Utah and potentially other sites, according to the solicitation.
In 18 pages of questions submitted by unidentified potential bidders, the DOE office said this is a multiple award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. One award will be made for the Environmental Management-Los Alamos task order as a result of this solicitation. Awardees will compete against each other for subsequent task orders, DOE said.
All offerors interested in the master IDIQ contract should propose a project manager for Los Alamos, DOE said. “Potential future Key Personnel will depend upon the requirements of future task orders,” the agency said in its replies.
DOE agreed to revise its RFP text to make it clear all key personnel are expected to stick around at least 18 months. One questioner said it appeared there was a two-year commitment for most key people but only 18 months for the top technical assistance boss at Los Alamos.
The DOE environmental business office also reiterated the initial task order for Los Alamos is only 18 months. “A decision to end, issue a logical follow-on task order, or recompete the EM-LA [Environmental Management-Los Alamos] task order will be made towards the end of the 18-month period of performance,” DOE said in the Monday document.
The initial Los Alamos task order will be used to gauge “price reasonableness” for the master agreement, DOE said.
S&K Logistics has a 5-year, $26-million tech assistance contract at Los Alamos set to expire April 30, according to a DOE contracts chart.
