SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Integrated Source Management Portfolio (ISMP) project
- Notice Date
- 7/17/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Administration, Division of Contracts, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, Maryland, 20852-2738, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20852-2738
- Solicitation Number
- 41-09-008
- Archive Date
- 9/16/2009
- Point of Contact
- Adelis M. Rodriguez, Phone: 301-492-3623
- E-Mail Address
-
adelis.rodriguez@nrc.gov
(adelis.rodriguez@nrc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The NRC is responsible for ensuring adequate safety and security for radioactive materials, including transactions involving radioactive materials, and the materials licensing process. This project directly supports these goals by providing a secure and effective set of automated tools to house and maintain information on licensees, nationally tracked sources possessed by licensees, and licensee transactions. The NRC seeks contractor support for the planning, acquisition, system certification, development, deployment, hosting, and maintenance of NRC's Integrated Source Management Portfolio (ISMP) project. The portfolio consists of three systems, two that are in the planning stages the License Verification System (LVS) and the Web Based Licensing (WBL) System; and one system already in operation the National Source Tracking System (NSTS). Within the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs (FSME) develops, implements and oversees the regulatory framework for industrial, commercial, and medical uses of radioactive materials, uranium recovery activities, and the decommissioning of previously operating nuclear facilities and power plants. In addition, FSME conducts extensive environmental assessments in Support of these regulatory functions. Our regulatory work is done in a manner that protects public health and safety, provides for the common defense and security, and protects the environment. We implement these regulatory programs in coordination with our partners at other Federal agencies, the States, the NRC Regions, and Tribal governments. The events of September 11, 2001 heightened the nation's concern regarding the use of radioactive materials for a malevolent act. The potential for such an attack has been of particular concern because of the widespread use of radioactive materials (often contained in sealed sources) in the United States and abroad by industry, hospitals, and academic institutions. A major impetus for this project is the need to control nuclear materials that could be used in a radiological dispersal device (RDD) or "dirty bomb" - a conventional explosive that carries nuclear materials and releases them on detonation. The NRC has been proactively working on material "real time" tracking capability since 2005. In late 2006 and early 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a test on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's controls governing the issuance of licenses for possessing certain types of radioactive materials and for enforcing possession limits on the quantities of those materials. Subsequently, GAO reported that they were able to obtain radioactive materials licenses for two fabricated companies, modify the licenses to raise the possession limits, and utilize the augmented licenses to receive quotes for purchasing radioactive materials from legitimate licensees. At a July 12, 2007 Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) hearing following GAO's report, it was suggested that the NRC should consider establishing a web-based licensing (verification) system that would allow suppliers to validate purchaser licenses and the authorized quantity that a purchaser could obtain. Former NRC Commissioner, Edward McGaffigan Jr., stated that information technology (IT) is one area in which NRC should improve to prevent fraudulent radioactive material license claims and alteration of possession limits. GAO, NRC, and Congress deemed this as a necessary and urgent IT initiative to protect the nation from the threat of malevolent use of nuclear materials. In an effort to better track radioactive materials, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission developed a comprehensive Action Plan outlining a number of specific steps to address the concerns raised by the GAO report and in the Senate Committee hearing. This plan consists of a portfolio of automated tools for credential tracking (license and certificate), inspection tracking, item tracking (devices and sources), event tracking, license verification, and financial interfacing. Initial development efforts that are included in the portfolio were - (1) the National Source Tracking System (NSTS), (2) the Web-Based Licensing (WBL), system and (3) the License Verification System (LVS). NSTS is currently in the final stages of development. A description of each system is provided below. National Source Tracking System (NSTS) The National Source Tracking System (NSTS), which has been under development since 2003, is a tracking system for the transfer of responsibility of sealed sources of radioactive materials. This tracking spans the life cycle of the source from manufacture through shipment receipt, decay, and burial. It supports controlled authorizations and accountability for licensed suppliers and licensed recipients of sealed sources. The successful implementation of NSTS will satisfy NRC's commitment to Congress to develop source tracking regulations as envisioned in the International Atomic Energy Agency's Code of Conduct in 2004. NSTS was given authority to operate (ATO) in December 2008. NSTS is a Level 4 system has a "High" security categorization. Web-Based Licensing System (WBL) The Web-Based Licensing System (WBL) is envisioned as a NRC material licensing system for managing licensing information for businesses using radioactive materials. The NRC web-based licensing system includes the licensing life cycle from initial application, license issuance, amendment, reporting, and de-licensing. Designed to maintain information on NRC material licensees, it is planned to support an interface for inclusion of licensing information from 36 Agreement States which support and manage their own material licenses. In addition, this requirement entails developing a web-based interface for materials Licensees; and replacing while improving upon the functionality currently embodied in several of the NRC's legacy systems; namely, the License Tracking System (LTS), the Inspection Planning System (IPS), Reciprocity Tracking System (RTS), and Transportation Approval Package Information System, (TAPIS). WBL is a Level 3 system and has a "Moderate" security categorization. License Verification System (LVS) The License Verification System (LVS) is envisioned as a "national verification system" that would access NRC and Agreement State licensee information and be used for purposes of detecting and preventing unauthorized parties with malicious intent from obtaining nuclear materials. The LVS is planned to be an integrated service that shall broker information stored in WBL and NSTS to provide the validations to ensure that (a) a license is valid and accurate; (b) a licensee is authorized for acquiring quantities and types of radioactive materials; and (c) the current levels of licensee inventory tracked sources is within the possession limits. The LVS will be designed to handle request transactions for validation functions. It shall work in much the same way as the approval process for a credit card purchase. When a merchant checks to verify a credit card the only information returned is whether or not the transaction is approved. LVS will take in the validation request and, through examination of information available from both NSTS and WBL, will provide a response indicating whether or not a license is valid and a pending purchase is within the bounds of the possession limits and inventory. LVS is a Level 3 system that has a "Moderate" security categorization. Under this requirement, the contractor shall perform development, testing, training, and deployment of the LVS and WBL systems; and Maintenance and Operational (M&O) support, user support, and hosting of LVS, WBL, and NSTS. The contractor shall comply with all Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) guidance for Level 4 authentication. The facility shall provide general hosting and operational support for a system requiring High confidentiality, High integrity, and High Availability. All hardware and software shall comply with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140 2. The hosting infrastructure shall include at least two geographically disparate sites to provide remediation from emergencies. The system shall employ a multi-tiered web architecture with levels of redundancy to ensure automatic failover. It is anticipated that the contract will be a labor hour type contract. The period of performance of the resultant contract will be 10 years (one base period of 4 years and three additional two-year optional periods. The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be available on or about July 31, 2009 and will be distributed solely through the FedBizOpps website, http://www.fedbizopps.gov. The FedBizOpps website provides downloading instructions. All future information about this acquisition, including solicitation amendments will also be distributed solely through the FedBizOpps website. Hard copies of the solicitation document and its related documents, as appropriate, will not be available. Because this solicitation and its related documents, as appropriate, will be posted at this website, interested parties are instructed NOT to send letters or e-mails or faxes requesting the RFP. Telephoned, e-mailed, or faxed requests for the RFP will not be accepted. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring the FedBizOpps website to assure that they have the most up-to-date information about this acquisition. The Government will not reimburse interested parties for any cost associated with responding to this business opportunity. This solicitation is expected to be under NAICS code 541519. Proposals for this requirement may be submitted by all concerns, i.e., large businesses, small businesses, and small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
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- Address: NRC HQ, Rockville, MD, Rockville, Maryland, 20866, United States
- Zip Code: 20866
- Zip Code: 20866
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