U.S. Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, P.O. Box 98518, Las Vegas, NV 89193-8518

A -- PROVIDE ESSENTIAL TECHNICAL RESEARCH, ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT IN THE BROAD TECHNICAL AREAS OF ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY AND HEALTH. SOL DE-RP08-99NV13609 DUE 050599 POC Beverly Colbert, Contract Specialist, (702) 295-1466, fax: (702) 295-1202 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contract specialist via, colbert@nv.doe.gov. DOE/NV intends to contract by means other than full and open competition with the Desert Research Institute (DRI), a nonprofit division of the University and Community College System of Nevada, using the exception at 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(3)(B): "To establish or maintain essential engineering, research, or development capability to be provided by an educational or nonprofit institution or a federally funded research and development center." Since 1959, DRI has pursued a full-time program of basic and applied environmental research on a local, national, and international scale. Under the proposed cost no-fee contract, DRI support, in the areas of research, engineering, and development, will include technical fields of chemistry; hydrology; geology; atmospheric, meteorology, radiological and biological sciences; energy and technology development; environmental monitoring, protection, and compliance; archaeology; historic preservation; statistics and data base management; science and environmental education; and community relations. Programs supported are nuclear experimentation, stockpile stewardship, waste disposal, environmental restoration/monitoring, historic preservation, technology development and other national security and environmental management programs managed by the DOE at Nevada. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement; however, this notice of intent is NOT a request for competitive proposals. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of evaluating the intent of this notice. Posted 04/15/99 (W-SN321008). (0105)

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