The Department of Energy kicked off solicitation Wednesday for a potential $120 million small business Technical Assistance Contract for certain Office of Environmental Management field sites, including the cleanup office at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
The final request for proposals (RFP) for the multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract was announced in a press release from the Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center.
In addition to Los Alamos, the Environmental Management (EM) business center is seeking technical assistance at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York and the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project in Utah and other EM Field Sites, DOE said. The agency signaled its intention in January to solicit bids for new technical assistance business.
The overall assistance contract has a five-year ordering period with the Los Alamos task order having an estimated value of up to $10 million over an 18-month period of performance. S&K Logistics Service is the incumbent technical assistance provider at Los Alamos-Environmental Management under a $26-million agreement that began in May 2017 and runs through April 30, according to a DOE contract chart.
Prospective bidders are encouraged to comment on the final RFP by noon Eastern Time on March 24 by emailing [email protected].
Proposals are due April 18, according to the RFP cover letter.
The Small Business Administration size standard for the award is 750 employees.
The work statement said the chores will include project and performance management, record keeping, information technology and support for training, public affairs as well as safeguards and security. Certain task orders might require access to classified information and the winning contractor must vet incoming staff to ensure they are cleared to view such data.
The task order document for Los Alamos notes the Office of Environmental Management is a tenant to the National Nuclear Security Administration, which owns the national laboratory. Most of Environmental Management’s cleanup work at Los Alamos is driven by regulatory compliance agreements, such as the 2016 consent order between DOE and New Mexico.
