U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations Office, P. O. Box 2001, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8758

P -- K-25 SITE THREE-BUILDING DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING (D&D) AND RECYCLING PROJECT POC Contact Points: Mark A. Million, Contract Specialist, Environmental Acquisitions Branch, Procurement and Contracts Division, (423) 576-7814, fax (423) 576-3375, E-mail: millionma@oro.doe.gov; Jack L. Howard, Technical Project Manager, Vision 2010 Task Team, (423) 576-2864, fax (423) 241-3314, E-mail: howardjl@oro.doe.gov K-25 Site Three-Building Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D) and Recycling Project. As a result of proposals received through the ''Vision 2010: Defederalization and Reindustrialization of the Oak Ridge Reservation'' workshop held in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on April 2-4, 1996, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Oak Ridge Operations Office (ORO), intends to negotiate a contract which may be on other than full and open competition basis for the D&D of the K-29, K-31, and K-33 process buildings and recycling of materials and equipment contained therein. As a result of this D&D and recycling process, the opportunity for the manufacture of waste containers and shipping casks for other DOE sites exists. DOE may also negotiate one or more leases for the reindustrialization of these facilities. DOE schedule requirements and the numerous possible approaches to recycling and reindustrialization that may be acceptable to DOE may not permit time for full and open competition and associated procedures. Therefore, a formal solicitation may not be issued. Interested parties have 30 days from the date of this publication to submit a written expression of interest which should demonstrate their experience and capability to decontaminate and decommission similar facilities with a proven technology. Negotiations using other than full and open competition procedures may be conducted with all responsible offerors who demonstrate prerequisite capability and technology. The selection of the successful offer will be based on the evaluated cost to the Government, the technical approach, the minimization of technical, schedule, and cost risk to the Government, private funding considerations, the requested Government funding profile, and the support of DOE program objectives including maximizing recycling of materials and the reindustrialization of the facilities. Consideration of all these factors may result in the selection of a proposal which is considered in the best interest of the Government and may not be the proposal with the lowest evaluated cost. As a result of the April 1996 workshop, a consortium including BNFL Inc., and Manufacturing Sciences Corporation (MSC) has demonstrated their capability and technology to do this project and will be one of the offerors DOE intends to negotiate with. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: In 1985, DOE discontinued uranium enrichment operations at the Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The discontinuation of these operations resulted in underutilized facilities, equipment, materials and infrastructure (roads, utilities and numerous industrial buildings). The K-29, K-31, and K-33 Buildings were originally built to accommodate the Low Enriched Uraniumportion of the Oak Ridge GDP cascade. The K-29 building contains three inactive gaseous diffusion process units consisting of ten cells each. Each cell contains ten stages, for a total of 300 stages. The K-31 Building contains six inactive gaseous diffusion process units consisting of ten cells each. Each cell contains ten stages, for a total of 600 stages. The K-33 Building contains eight inactive gaseous diffusion process units consisting of ten cells each. Each cell contains eight stages, for a total of 640 stages. Altogether, these three process buildings house a total of 1,540 stages. A stage consists of two electric motors, axial flow compressors, a converter containing a large surface area of barrier material, and associated process piping and valves. The building sizes for K-29, K-31, and K-33 are 451,000; 1,659,626; and 2,780,104 gross square feet, respectively. Within the three process buildings there is an estimated 112,000 tons of valuable metals, including nickel, aluminum, stainless steel, and copper. As is inherent with the diffusion process, some of these assets are contaminated with radioactive and chemical materials. The work scope for the K-25 Site Three-Building D&D and Recycling Project requires as a minimum the following: 1) responsibility for surveillance and maintenance of the three process buildings, 2) removal of all process equipment and materials from the three buildings, 3) decontamination of all vacant areas within the buildings to ''brownfield'' status, 4) recycling of the majority of materials, 5) disposal of secondary waste, 6) preparation of the three buildings for industrial use, and 7) having one of the buildings ready for industrial occupancy by the year 2000. Disposition of the resulting recycled material/equipment/products is the responsibility of the contractor. Additionally, the contractor will be responsible for all wastes and by-products associated with the effort. Disposal of any wastes, materials and/or equipment shall be in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. During the initial phases of the project, it is anticipated that significant financial commitment by the successful offeror will be necessary. These negotiations will result in an award of a firm fixed price completion type contract and might result in the award of one or more leases. Payment will only be made for segments of work completed, such as reusable segments of space that have been cleared of all materials and equipment, and decontaminated. The total net cost to the Government for this project to be considered will have to be $250 million or less. The amount of Government funding available may be significantly less than $250 million, and the proposed funding profile may be an important factor. (0305)

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