SOURCES SOUGHT
L -- Support Services for Potentially Hazardous Testing Operations
- Notice Date
- 8/17/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 561210
— Facilities Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Sandia Corp. (DOE Contractor), Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800 MS: 0115, Albuquerque, NM, 87185
- ZIP Code
- 87185
- Solicitation Number
- 5600
- Response Due
- 9/3/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/18/2004
- Point of Contact
- Kevin Kartchner, Staff-Lab Purchasing, Phone 5058459175, Fax 5058445266, - Kevin Kartchner, Staff-Lab Purchasing, Phone 5058459175, Fax 5058445266,
- E-Mail Address
-
khkartc@sandia.gov, khkartc@sandia.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), a DOE/NNSA facility located on Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico and operated/maintained under contract by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Corporation subsidiary, has an ongoing requirement for contract services (consisting of personnel, equipment, and materials) in support of testing operations conducted primarily in the facilities mentioned below. SNL contemplates conducting a competitive, small-business set-aside procurement, as a follow-on to its current contract (expiring in November 2005), on which the incumbent contractor is expected to bid. Therefore, SNL is seeking experienced, interested small businesses for purposes of developing a source list for a request for quotations (RFQ) that it hopes to issue sometime in November-December 2004. It is estimated that the new contract will have a value of up to $3 million/year for up to ten years; however, given that demand for the test facilities is a function of market forces over which SNL has little or no control, there is no guarantee that the requirement for contract services will remain at its current level. SNL emphasizes that the requirement is for support services, as the scientific/analytical functions related to the testing operations are generally served by SNL scientists and engineers. What follows is a synopsis of the requirement: Furnish personnel, equipment, and material to Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) for the maintenance and support of testing operations at facilities located primarily in Area III and Coyote Canyon, but which may also include Area I and remote locations such as the Tonopah Test Range (located in the state of Nevada), and the White Sands Missile Range (located in southern New Mexico). The Contractor shall provide maintenance and support of testing operations at the facilities listed below. SNL reserves the right to add additional facilities to this list at a future date. 1. Rocket Sled Track Complex. Used for a controlled environment for high-velocity impact, aerodynamic, acceleration, and erosion testing of small and large test items. 2. Aerial Cable Facility. Used for precision testing of: nuclear material shipping containers for certification of capability to withstand impacts; full-scale, air-deliverable military systems tested under realistic target engagement scenarios; airborne sensors and sensor-fuzed weapons systems suspended in a stable platform located above ground targets. 3. Vibration & Acoustic Complex. Used for random vibration, shock on shakers, seismic simulation, sinusoidal vibration, combined environments, and acoustic tests using electrodynamic and electrohydraulic shakers with various forces. 4. Centrifuge Complex. Used for producing long-interval, continuous high-acceleration loadings on test articles. Test articles can also be exposed to a vibration environment by mounting a vibration shaker (Vibrafuge) on the end of the 29-foot centrifuge arm. 5. Radiant Heat Complex. Includes four separate structures located inside a fenced enclosure. This complex uses high-intensity, electrically produced radiant energy, furnaces, or other facilities to pyrolyze test items at temperatures up to 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit, and thereby simulate the effects of fires resulting from transportation and handling accidents. 6. Lurance Canyon Burn Site. Consists of several open-pool and enclosure fire-testing facilities. The open-pool facilities have been used extensively to certify the survivability of various systems, such as containers specially designed to transport hazardous materials, tractor/trailer systems designed to transport nuclear weapons and spent nuclear fuel, and nuclear weapons. 7. Drop/Impact Complex. Provides a controlled environment for high-velocity impact testing on a variety of targets, as well as water impact testing and underwater testing. This complex can test items containing radioactive materials, high explosives, and security classified items. 8. Mechanical Shock Complex. Provides laboratory-controlled shock simulation capability specializing in nonexplosive simulation of pyrotechnic shock. Some examples of the types of systems and equipment with which the Contractor must work include, but are not limited to, the following: oil, water, compressed gas, power, experimental chambers, signal cabling, and control systems. The Contractor shall perform work in potentially hazardous working conditions. Some examples of such conditions include, but are not limited to, the following: work performed at heights above ground level; the movement of heavy equipment; proximity to handling of high-voltage circuitry, toxic and radioactive materials; and confined space, explosives and normal construction hazards.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Sandia National Laboratories, (Physically located on Kirtland AFB), Albuquerque, NM
- Zip Code: 87123
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 87123
- Record
- SN00645207-W 20040819/040817211839 (fbodaily.com)
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