Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B), cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, is seeking a subcontractor to conduct off-site laboratory tests on soil, water, and debris samples.
The successful bidder must be able to conduct inorganic, organic, and radiochemical analyses on a wide variety of environmental samples, N3B said in the Jan. 9 request for proposals posted on FedBizOpps.gov. The subcontractor must be able to handle radioactive material because most of the samples will contain low levels of radioactivity, according to a 100-page scope of work. The subcontractor would also develop a number of quality assurance reports from the sampling.
The subcontract could run for up to four years. The base period is planned from Feb. 1, 2019, to Jan. 31, 2020. It could be followed by up to three one-year option periods extending the deal through April 2023.
Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos said the winning subcontractor should be able to process up to 1,200 samples per week while meeting requirements for turnaround time and data quality. It must also be able to prepare certain electronic data reports for DOE, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The document did not list any value range for the subcontract.
Interested vendors should submit their firm-fixed-price proposals electronically by 2 p.m. MT on Jan. 25 to [email protected]. Any questions on the solicitation should also be submitted to Cockfield by close of business on Jan. 21.
Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos has a 10-year, $1.4 billion legacy remediation contract through April 2028, with extensions. The N3B contract includes a host of cleanup and waste management operations at Los Alamos, including surface and groundwater monitoring and drafting interim and permanent solutions for a chromium plume at LANL.
The current subcontractor is ARS International, which N3B uses through a LANL enterprise subcontract, said N3B spokesman Todd Nelson. ARS has been extended until the new legacy cleanup vendor makes its own subcontractor arrangement. “We should have our own subcontractors in place in early spring,” he said in an email.
“As part of our work on the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract, we expect to annually collect about 10,000 samples that will be analyzed for more than 500 constituents yielding more than half a million results,” Nelson said. The purpose of sampling is to determine if there are any legacy waste constituents of concern in groundwater, surface water, and soil, or on equipment.
