SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- CONTRACTOR SUPPORT FOR THE PURDUE ADVANCED REACTOR CORE SIMULATOR (PARCS) CODE SUITE - Package #1
- Notice Date
- 6/1/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Acquisition Management Division, Acquisition Management Division, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852-2738, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20852-2738
- Solicitation Number
- NRC-HQ-60-15-R-0009
- Point of Contact
- Mark Thompson, Phone: 3014150689
- E-Mail Address
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Mark.Thompson@nrc.gov
(Mark.Thompson@nrc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Full Presolicitation Notice Objective The objective of this contract is to obtain regulatory technical support with the maintenance, code support, assessment, development, and user training of the PARCS and GenPMAXS codes and the interface of PARCS with RELAP, TRACE, and SNAP as well as maintaining TRIPEN/AGREE support for the OECD-NEA-LOFC benchmark. The PARCS code supports independent regulatory decision making through its employment as a tool in confirmatory safety reviews of power plant operator actions, core designs, power uprates, and license amendments. Background Fundamental to reactor safety analysis is the ability to predict the fission power and decay heat sources that arise under normal, off-normal, and accident conditions. Quasi-steady-state calculations of spatial core power and burn-up distributions over core operating cycles are used to analyze (a) peak pin powers in relation to fuel thermal limits, (b) reactivity and power control, (c) safe shutdown margins, (d) slow spatial xenon transients and oscillations, and (e) the initial conditions of spatial reactivity feedback characteristics, fission power, stored heat, and decay power. Dynamically coupled transient calculations are especially important in analyzing the spatial kinetics of reactivity insertion transients (e.g., rod bank withdrawal, rod drop, rod ejection) and the core power surges and oscillations associated with transient over-cooling events (e.g., turbine trip), flow and boiling instabilities, and anticipated transients without scram (ATWS). This predictive ability entails the use of three-dimensional (3-D) reactor physics codes such as Purdue Advanced Reactor Core Simulator (PARCS), which has been continuously developed by the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) since 1998. PARCS has been dynamically coupled to the system thermal hydraulic code TRACE and is available as both an embedded module within TRACE and as a standalone code. The dynamically coupled TRACE/PARCS is used for the analyses of normal operations and transients in operating reactors (control and power maneuvers), analyses to support resolution of generic issues, evaluation of emergency procedures and accident management strategies, confirmation of licensee's analyses, training exercises for NRC staff, and supporting analyses for the certification review of current reactor designs, advanced reactor designs, and research and test reactors. PARCS is a nodal reactor analysis code that calculates the transient and steady state core power (and other safety significant reactor parameters) through the numeric solution to a discretized formulation for the neutron diffusion equation. In standalone-maintained form, PARCS is coupled to the PARCS Advanced Thermal Hydraulic Solver (PATHS) for steady-state BWR and PWR analysis, and coupled also to a simple mass-energy balance solver for steady-state PWR analysis. SNAP (Symbolic Nuclear Analysis Package) provides a graphical interface to PARCS. GenPMAXS (GenPMAXS is the code for Generating the cross section interface file PMAXS) provides the key interface between PARCS and the following lattice physics codes: CASMO, HELIOS, TRITON, POLARIS, WIMS, CONDOR, and SERPENT. GenPMAXS also provides the cross section processing interface for conversion into the PARCS format from lattice physics data and the TRIPEN/AGREE code (TRIPEN is an acronym for TRIangular Polynomial Expansion Nodal method; AGREE (Advanced Gas REactor Evaluation) is a 3-D gas dynamics and heat transfer code). In addition to converting lattice physics-averaged cross sections, GenPMAXS analytically solves for the flux discontinuity along the fuel reflector interface. TRIPEN/AGREE is used for the analysis of prismatic gas cooled reactor designs. Similar to the PARCS code, TRIPEN is a nodal reactor analysis code, but it has been formulated specifically for triangular meshes. The AGREE code that has been coupled to TRIPEN solves for the heat transfer within the triangular portion of a hexagonal block with a system of 1-D flow channels for fluid flow, and a thermal-circuit conduction approach for the heat transfer. As in PATHS, AGREE provides thermal-hydraulic feedback for cross section interpolation. PARCS code suite users include all users that have received the PARCS code suite or portions thereof through NRC licensing rights (e.g. Code Applications and Maintenance Program (CAMP)), international bilateral cooperative agreements, Thermal Hydraulics Codes Users Group, NRC contractors, and NRC staff). Scope of Work The contractor shall provide all resources necessary to accomplish the tasks and deliverables described as part of this requirement. The contractor shall provide ongoing maintenance, code support, assessment, development and user training for the PARCS code suite (PARCS including the interface of PARCS with TRACE, RELAP, and SNAP, as well as the GenPMAXS and TRIPEN/AGREE codes). The contractor shall maintain each portion of the PARCS code suite within its own configuration control system, perform model development, and PARCS standalone and coupled code (TRACE/PARCS) assessment. The work under this contract shall apply to, but not be limited to, the operating fleet of LWRs, as well as more advanced Generation III (ABWR and APWR), Generation III+ (ESBWR and EPR), and small modular reactor LWR designs; High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors (HTGRs); research and training reactors; Aqueous Homogeneous Reactors; fast reactors; and VVERs (water water energy reactors). During the course of this contract, the contractor may be required to apply PARCS expertise to other advanced reactor designs, as directed by the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR). All PARCS and GenPMAXS code changes shall be consistent with Attachment A (Special Requirements) and Attachment B (TRACE Standard F90 Programming Practices and General Design Philosophies). PARCS and GenPMAXS code changes shall be tested on a variety of compiler/operating system combinations. The following compilers shall be used during maintenance and development of the PARCS source code: Windows (Intel Visual Fortran) Linux (g95, Lahey, gfortran, Intel, NAG, Portland Group) The contractor shall ensure that the above compilers and platforms are in place for the entire period of performance, and that these compilers are maintained at their most current release levels throughout the contract. The COR may require the contractor to extend support to other compiler/operating system combinations that are not listed as a result of changing priorities. The contractor shall perform the following tasks under this contract: • Task 1 - PARCS Code Maintenance • Task 2 - PARCS Code Support • Task 3 - PARCS Code Development • Task 4 - GenPMAXS Code Support and Maintenance • Task 5 - PARCS and GenPMAXS User Training • Task 6 - Support for OECD-NEA LOFC HTTR (High-Temperature Engineering Test Reactor) Benchmark • Task 7 - Perform PARCS Assessment against Watts Bar VERA • Task 8 - Exponentially Varying Control Rod History Model • Task 9 - Micro-depletion Algorithm Development and Implementation within PARCS Estimated Materials Required The contractor shall be required to provide the following information technology during the life of the contract: Commercial FORTRAN compilers including: Intel® Fortran Studio XE for Windows (3 users) LF 64 Linux PRO v8.1 (3 users) NAG Fortran Compiler for Linux (1 user) PGI Fortran/C/C++ Workstation for Linux (1 user) 3 Engineering Workstations [Minimum Requirements: Multicore Processor, 2.40GHz, 12GB RAM, 1 TB hard drive] SecureZip and Adobe FrameMaker Software Packages The designated NAICS Code is 541690 - Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services, The government anticipates a five-year contract period of performance with no option periods. The Solicitation/Request for Proposal (RFP) will be issued utilizing FAR Part 15, source selection: best value/tradeoff process. The government anticipates release of the solicitation on or about June 17, 2015, with a projected closing date of July 15, 2015. These are projected dates and are subject to change. The solicitation will be available through the FedBizzOpps website at https://www.fbo.gov, and through FedConnect at https://www.fedconnect.net. All interested offerors shall be registered in FedConnect in order to be able to submit a proposal. All future information regarding this acquisition, including solicitation amendments, will be distributed solely through FedConnect website and FedBizzOpps website. The solicitation document and its related documents, as appropriate, will be posted at these websites. Therefore, interested parties shall not send letters, e-mails, or faxes requesting copies of the RFP. Accordingly, telephone, mail, e-mail, or fax requests will not be honored. Interested parties shall be responsible for monitoring the FedConnect website and the FedBizzOpps website to assure that they have the most up-to-date information regarding this acquisition. The contracting officer has enabled the "Register as Interested Vendor" feature for the referenced solicitation number. Vendors can obtain more information on the Interested Vendors List (IVL) by clicking on the following link to the Vendor's Guide: https://www.fbo.gov/downloads/FBO_Vendor_Guide.pdf The Government shall not reimburse interested parties for any costs associated with responding to this solicitation. The government reserves the right to award without discussions therefore; the offerors initial proposal shall contain its best terms. Interested parties doing business with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must have a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number and must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). The point of contact for this notice is Mark Thompson, Contract Specialist; Email: Mark.Thompson@nrc.gov; Phone: 301-415-0689.
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