NEW ROUND OF Q&A’S FOR Y-12/PANTEX PROCUREMENT

The National Nuclear Security Administration has released another set of questions and answers to the final Request for Proposals for its combined Y-12 National Security Complex/Pantex Plant management and operating contract. The fourth set of Q&As released since the final RFP was published in December, the latest group clears up potential questions about when contractors may be able to begin implementing cost savings initiatives, suggesting that language in the final RFP would allow bidders to earn fee from cost savings that are proposed and implemented during the transition to a new contractor. A questioner had asked about the logistics of implementing changes during transition. “Considering that the contractor will not take over operational responsibility (and presumably the workforce at the sites) until the end of the Transition Term, it is not clear how the contractor could implement changes in the FTE baseline when they do not employ the personnel,” the questioner said. The agency said final RFP was designed to “allow the successor contractor to obtain a share in savings for cost reductions proposed and implemented before they are responsible for operations, but realized during contract performance.” The latest questions and answers can be found here.