The Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office is shopping around for potential providers of Transportation Emergency Preparedness Program support.
According to a sources sought notice posted online Tuesday, the agency’s Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center said the contractor will tackle “preparedness issues for shipments of DOE radiological material and waste,” across the weapons complex.
As part of DOE Comprehensive Emergency Management System, the Transportation Emergency Preparedness Program helps federal, state, tribal, and local agencies be ready to handle any haulage accident involving radiological material, according to the notice.
The program “ensures responders have access to model plans and procedures, training” and other resources needed to respond “safely, efficiently, and effectively” to transportation accidents.
A link to DOE’s existing Transportation Emergency Preparedness Program can be found here. Along with training, videos and other tools, the program provides a self-assessment document used to determine jurisdiction’s readiness to cope with a transportation accident involving radioactive material.
Idaho Falls-based Technical Resources Group is the incumbent provider. In March 2019 it was awarded a potential five-year contract worth up to $4.5 million. The incumbent describes itself on its website as a small, woman-owned consulting firm specializing in radiological training.
Comments on the sources sought announcement should be filed with DOE by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sept. 12.
