Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) today issued a Draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Environmental Management (EM) Portsmouth Paducah Project Office (PPPO) Technical Support Services procurement, and is inviting industry comment. The Draft RFP is set up as a Time-and-Materials (T&M) contract that also contains a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) for transition and an Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) CLIN, under which only FFP task orders can be issued. This procurement will be issued as a Small Business set-aside, with a 60-day transition and a five year period of performance (three-year base and two-year option).

The primary purpose of the contract will be to provide technical and administrative support to assist the DOE with the oversight and management of the clean-up activities at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP)/site in Pike County, Ohio and the Paducah GDP/site in Paducah, Kentucky; operation of the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Project (DUF6) in Pike County, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky; and to provide various technical engineering functions, information technology infrastructure support, Safeguards and Security oversight, and general administrative support for all of the PPPO sites. This contract will be issued as a consolidated effort for the continuation of three current, separate technical support services contracts for PPPO.

Additional information is available via the procurement website at: https://www.emcbc.doe.gov/SEB/pppo_technical_services/.

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