Alissa Tabirian
NS&D Monitor
11/6/2015
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) yesterday released its request for proposals for the follow-on contract for management and operation of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). The contract will feature a five-year base period and five-year option period and is expected to be worth $500 million-$600 million per year. The contractor will support NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship and Management program, its nuclear nonproliferation activities, national emergency response activities, nuclear counterterrorism, and infrastructure, maintenance, and recapitalization projects, according to the scope of work. The NNSA’s current contract with National Security Technologies, a collaboration of Northrop Grumman, AECOM, CH2M, and BWX Technologies, is set to expire in September 2016.
NNSS is a high-hazard operations and testing site that supports the NNSA in maintaining the nuclear deterrent through projects that include subcritical experiments conducted in the site’s underground U1a Complex and criticality safety and emergency response training at its Criticality Experiments Facility.
The NNSA in September sought feedback on draft documents offering two options for criteria to be used to assess past contractor performance. Under the first option, the government would credit parent companies equally when evaluating past performance; under the second, parent companies would be equally credited unless a scope agreement identifies the role of each company in the contract. The final RFP states that a team member’s past performance “will be determined based on consideration of the specific sections of the SOW the team member is proposed to perform or be responsible for, as opposed to the entire SOW.” Proposals are due by Dec. 22.
