SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- REACTOR RISK ASSESSMENT TRAINING PROGRAM
- Notice Date
- 3/1/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 611430
— Professional and Management Development Training
- 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
- RS-38-10-PRA
- Archive Date
- 4/10/2010
- Point of Contact
- Monique B. Williams, Phone: 301-492-3640
- E-Mail Address
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monique.williams@nrc.gov
(monique.williams@nrc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE. This is not a Request for Proposals. The NRC is conducting a market survey and analysis to determine the range of available contractors and their capabilities to assist the NRC with the work areas described below. All interested parties, including all categories of small businesses (small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, 8(a) firms, women-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and HUBZone businesses) are invited to submit a response. Requirements for Risk Assessment Training : As part of its effort to train NRC personnel in risk assessment techniques, the NRC provides a curriculum of 15 courses covering a wide rang of risk assessment topics. This is an established curriculum with course presentation materials available in Microsoft PowerPoint format. The NRC's Office of Human Resources Technical Training Center is seeking sources capable of maintaining and conducting the curriculum of courses described below: • P-102 Bayesian Inference in Risk Assessment - (5 days) This course covers basic applications of Bayesian statistical inference in risk assessment. Through lectures, workshop problems, and case studies participants are presented with mathematical techniques from probability and Bayesian inference that are currently being applied in risk assessments. The topics covered include a review of probability, selected probability models important to risk assessment, elementary Bayesian parameter estimation, introduction to Bayesian model validation, and uncertainty propagation through risk assessment models. The course is computer-based and utilizes Excel, RADS, and SAPHIRE, with an introduction to WinBUGS, which is useful for more advanced problems. Students should be familiar with the basic operations of Excel, but do not need to be familiar with RADS, SAPHIRE, or WinBUGS. • P-502 Bayesian Inference in Risk Assessment - Advanced Topics - (4 days) This course explores advanced applications of Bayesian statistical inference in risk assessment through lectures and hands-on case studies using WinBUGS and SAPHIRE. Students should have completed Bayesian Inference in Risk assessment (P 102) course. Students are expected to be familiar with WinBugs at the level as presented in P-102. • P-105 PRA Basics for Regulatory Applications - (3 days) This course addresses the special needs of the regulator who requires knowledge of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) issues and insights to better evaluate the effects of design, testing, maintenance, and operating strategies on system reliability. The full range of PRA topics is presented in abbreviated form with the goal of introducing the regulatory staffs to the basic concepts and terminology of PRA as applied to the inspection process. The course uses actual plant PRAs and IPEs and stresses the uses and applications of these publications in planning audits and inspections and evaluating plant safety issues. • P-108 NRC MC 0609 Appendix F Fire Protection SDP Training - (3 days) This course introduces the methodology described in Appendix F to the NRC Manual Chapter 0609, Fire Protection Significance Determination Process (SDP). Students will be introduced to the underlying theory of this SDP and will be taught to use PC-based tool for aiding in the execution of the SDP. • P-109 Assessing the Adequacy of Models for Risk-Informed Decisions - (1 day) This course is aimed at improving awareness of the factors that contribute to uncertainty in predictive models (both probabilistic and deterministic), and the need to identify, characterize and communicate the uncertainties to risk-informed decision makers. This course discusses the fact that all models are just estimates of reality and subject to many implicit assumptions and biases. It is the responsibility of the analyst to explicitly understand and communicate those assumptions, the limits of model applicability, and the uncertainty on the output. Much time is spent in the class on developing an appreciation for the value of a questioning attitude toward model use and reliance. • P-111 PRA Technology and Regulatory Perspectives - (9 days) This course addresses the special needs of Regional Inspectors, Resident Inspectors, and other technical personnel who require knowledge of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) issues and insights to better evaluate the effects of design, testing, maintenance, and operating strategies on system reliability. The course will concentrate on the use of PRA results in inspection planning, monitoring licensee performance, and reviewing licensee risk-informed submittals. • P-200 System Modeling Techniques for PRA - (4 days) This course will help develop advanced user level skills in performing event tree and fault tree analysis, with numerous practice workshops. The course covers the calculation of initiating event frequencies, component failure rate, and the use of "super components" to create fault trees. A second focus of the course is dependent failure analysis, including multiple Greek letter, binomial failure rate, basic parameter methods, and alpha factor methods for estimating common cause/common mode failure probabilities. • P-201 SAPHIRE Basics - (4 days) This course provides hands-on training in the use of Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluation (SAPHIRE) for Windows to perform PRA on a PC. When the course is completed, the participants are able to: build fault tree models on the PC, assign reliability data, analyze the fault trees and develop minimal cut sets, calculate various importance measures, perform uncertainty analysis, analyze accident sequences, create and quantify accident sequences, and generate reports. • P-202 Advanced SAPHIRE - (4 days) This course provides hands-on training in the advanced features of Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluation (SAPHIRE) for Windows to perform PRA on a PC. SAPHIRE allows the user to build and evaluate the models used in PRA. Participants will learn advanced features such as Flag Sets, advanced basic events (i.e., template, compound, common-cause, and human error events), and various rule editors (i.e., event tree linking, recovery, and partition rules). • P-203 Human Reliability Assessment - (4 days) This course serves as an introduction to Human Reliability Assessment (HRA) including the methods used in modeling of human errors and various methods of estimating their probabilities. This course is designed to teach introductory level skills in HRA and includes a broad introduction to HRA and its applications. A discussion of HRA strengths, limitations, and results is also included. • P-204 External Events - (4 days) This course deals with the analysis of external events such as fires, floods, earthquakes, high winds, and transportation accidents. The course has been developed to provide the student with information that can be used in the review of IPEEE results. • P-300 Accident Progression Analysis - (3 days) This course deals with the portion of probabilistic risk assessment typically referred to as Level 2 analysis. The course will address accident phenomenology under post-core damage conditions and will discuss development of PRA models for this severe accident regime. The emphasis of the course is on the important modeling issues and how they are dealt with, rather than how to use specific modeling software. • P-301 Accident Consequence Analysis - (5 days) This course deals with the portion of PRA typically referred to as Level 3 analysis. The course addresses environmental transport of radionuclides and the estimation of offsite consequences from core damage accidents. The major emphasis of the course is on important modeling issues and how they are dealt with, with a secondary emphasis on how to use specific modeling software. Hands-on modeling examples using the MACCS2 (MELCOR Accident Consequence Code System) software code are covered in the course. • P-302 Risk Assessment in Event Evaluation - (4 days) This course covers the use of PRA techniques to assess the risk significance of initiating events and condition assessments that occur at operating reactors. The course addresses the use of simplified PRA models to estimate conditional damage probability using the Graphical Evaluation Module (GEM) of the SAPHIRE suite of programs. In addition, common cause and non-recovery probabilities will be addressed. The course includes conventional workshops and GEM program workshops. • P-501 Advanced Risk Assessment Topics (4 days) The primary objective of this course is to provide a hands-on approach to the investigation and application of a variety of advanced risk assessment methods, tools, and techniques. This objective will be accomplished by discussing select topics followed by hands-on application for example exercises. As a result of these hands-on exercises, the student will become more proficient with Bayesian methods and the use of tools such as SAPHIRE, Excel, and WinBUGS for numerical analysis. Please complete the Market Research Questions (set forth below). Page Limits - Questions 1 to 8 no more than three pages. 1. How long has your business been in operation? 2. What type of business is your company (i.e. 8(a), large, etc.)? 3. Has your company worked for any NRC licensees in the past year? 4. Describe the types of work and technical disciplines your company offers. 5. List any companies or government agencies your company plans to perform work related to risk assessment in the next two years? 6. Has your company previously faced organizational conflict of interest issues with NRC? How were they resolved? 7. Describe specific experience your company has in providing training services? 8. Describe any other information your company deems relevant to supporting the risk assessment training curriculum described above Any organization responding to this SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform this work. A government employee will evaluate all submissions for responsiveness to this announcement. This is not a Request for Proposals and this in now way commits the Government to award a contract. The Government does not intend to award a contract based solely on this submission to this Sources Sought Notice nor does it intend to pay for any costs incurred in response to this announcement. Submission of additional materials such as glossy brochures or videos are discouraged. Responses are due no later than March 26, 2010, 12:00 noon (local time). Telephone inquiries or responses will not be accepted. Responses should be sent via e-mail to monique.williams@nrc.gov or mailed to: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Attn: Monique Williams, Division of Contracts, TWB-01 B123, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. All inquiries concerning this announcement shall be directed to Monique Williams, Senior Contracts Specialist via e-mail: monique.williams@nrc.gov.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Technical Training Center, Osborne Office Center, 5746 Marlin Road, suite 200, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37411-5677, United States
- Zip Code: 37411-5677
- Zip Code: 37411-5677
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