Alissa Tabirian
NS&D Monitor
10/2/2015
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking industry comments on a draft request for proposal for design, integration, construction, communication, and engineering (DICCE2) services in support of the Office of Global Material Security’s Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence (NSDD) Program, according to a notice posted last Friday.
DICCE2 services sought include the installation of “integrated sustainable radiation detection equipment at selected international land border crossings, airports, feeder ports and seaports in cooperation with international partners” to help other countries “deter, detect, and interdict illicit trafficking in special nuclear and other radiological materials,” according to the NSDD program’s statement of work document.
The program, which promotes the NNSA’s nonproliferation initiatives through global capacity-building partnerships, will focus its procurement on site designs and “installations that minimally disrupt commerce and movement of people or cargo,” the document says. Equipment will include hardware to be installed at up to 150 ports of entry in approximately 30 foreign countries over the next five years, and “the Contractor will have sites in as many as twenty countries working simultaneously,” the document says. The program is on a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, with a total value not to exceed $400 million. The posting asks potential bidders to submit comments on the draft request for proposal by Oct. 7.
