SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Sources Sought for Systems Engineering Assessment Approaches for Operating and New/Advanced Reactor Technologies.
- Notice Date
- 1/25/2024 11:16:52 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ROCKVILLE MD 20855 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20855
- Solicitation Number
- APP-24-RES-0027
- Response Due
- 2/12/2024 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 02/27/2024
- Point of Contact
- MITCHELL, JEFFREY R., Phone: 3014155074, PEREZ-ORTIZ, ARACELIS, Phone: 3014150085
- E-Mail Address
-
Jeffrey.Mitchell@nrc.gov, Aracelis.Perez-Ortiz@nrc.gov
(Jeffrey.Mitchell@nrc.gov, Aracelis.Perez-Ortiz@nrc.gov)
- Description
- APP-24-RES-0027 Sources Sought for Systems Engineering Assessment Approaches for Operating and New/Advanced Reactor Technologies.� THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC) is issuing this Sources Sought Synopsis as a means of conducting market research or as a market survey to determine the availability of potential qualified vendors with the capability to provide all technical, management, supervision, administration, and labor for subject matter expertise for an upcoming project titled �Systems Engineering Assessment Approaches for Operating and New/Advanced Reactor Technologies.�� BACKGROUND Industry is adopting a Systems Engineering process, such as the Digital Engineering Guide (DEG) 3002011816, �Decision Making Using Systems Engineering,� developed by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).� The NRC is migrating towards a risk-informed, performance-based regulatory review practice, for which the Systems Engineering approach is an enabler.� While the EPRI-developed guidance is intended to support implementations in industry, there is a corresponding opportunity for the NRC to utilize the Systems Engineering approach in systematizing its migration towards risk-informed, performance-based regulatory review practice. �This project is intended to develop the commensurate technical basis and framework. An objective of this project is to identify areas where the Systems Engineering approach could support the migration of NRC�s current regulatory review practice towards a risk-informed, performance-based practice. �The technical basis and framework are intended to allow a licensee or applicant to use state-of-the-art methods, techniques, and tools: to establish engineering-level performance-based safety requirements; to generate the evidence that the engineering-level requirements satisfy the regulatory requirements; to generate the evidence that the engineering requirements are satisfied; and to organize and integrate all the evidence to demonstrate that the regulatory requirements are satisfied.� The engineering requirements include safety constraints on the interactions of the system with its environment. The framework is also intended to support the application of the same approach to components within the system (e.g., cascading to the supply chain). This Sources Sought notice seeks information on the capability and availability of commercial vendors experienced in providing R&D services for designing and implementing systems engineering processes in an organization that performs independent validation and verification (IV&V), safety assurance, certification, or licensing. The initial work will entail extracting and critically reviewing relevant contextual and supporting information from: NRC staff guidance containing I&C technical criteria, such as Standard Review Plan (SRP) for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition (NUREG-0800) Chapter 7. The Design Review Guide (DRG) for Advanced Reactors (ADAMS Accession No. ML21011A140). Documents representative of systems engineering processes being adopted by the Nuclear industry such as EPRI�s �Digital Engineering Guide: Decision Making Using Systems Engineering.� Literature for understanding performance-based assurance, such as �Code Official�s Guide to Performance-Based Design Review (2004) available at www.spfe.org�. �Performance-based engineering of constructed systems�, available from the American Society of Civil Engineers, available at https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2007)133:3(311) �A new systems engineering structured assurance methodology for complex systems"", available at https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/188365556.pdf �Model-based systems engineering and model-based safety analysis� DOT/FAA/TC-20/42. A case study demonstrating correct-by-construction model-based engineering and safety assurance, available at https://github.com/GaloisInc/HARDENS Literature for understanding model-based systems engineering and safety assurance, such as �Model-based systems engineering and model-based safety analysis� DOT/FAA/TC-20/42. A case study demonstrating correct-by-construction model-based engineering and safety assurance, available at https://github.com/GaloisInc/HARDENS IEEE/ISO/IEC 24641-2023�-�Systems and Software engineering--Methods and tools for model-based�systems and software engineering Integrated rigorous analysis in cyber-physical systems engineering, available at https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/23041 Literature for understanding the application of systems engineering relevant to digital instrumentation & controls (I&C) for nuclear power plants Introduction to Systems Engineering for the Instrumentation and Control of�Nuclear�Facilities �IAEA NR-T-2.14� IEEE Std 1012�-2016 IEEE Standard for System. Software, and Hardware Verification and Validation IEEE/ISO/IEC 24641-2023�-�Systems and Software engineering--Methods and tools for model-based�systems and software engineering ISO/IEC/IEEE�15026-1:2019(E) ISO/IEC/IEEE International Standard - Systems and software engineering--Systems and software assurance --Part 1:Concepts and vocabulary ISO/IEC/IEEE 15026-2:2022(E) International Standard - Systems and software engineering--Systems and software assurance--Part 2: Assurance case ISO/IEC/IEEE�15026-4:2021(E) International Standard - Systems and software engineering--Systems and software assurance -- Part 4: Assurance in the life cycle ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 Systems and software engineering � Life cycle processes � Requirements engineering ISO/IEC 26550:2015(E) Software and systems engineering � Reference model for product line engineering and management ISO/IEC 26551:2016(E) Tools and methods for product line requirements engineering ISO/IEC 26552:2019(E) Tools and methods for product line architecture design ISO/IEC 26553:2018(E) Processes and capabilities of methods and tools for domain realization and application realization ISO/IEC 26554:2018(E) Methods and tools for domain testing and application testing Evolving safety standards relevant to this research (e.g., IEEE P3332 Standard for control-oriented system safety analysis). REQUIRED CAPABILITIES:� Expertise in designing and implementing a systems engineering process at organizations developing, certifying, or regulating safety critical digital instrumentation and controls systems and components. Expertise in licensing, certification, or IV&V of digital instrumentation and controls systems in safety critical I&C applications. The offeror must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in safety analysis and evaluation of safety critical digital systems across multiple industries (e.g., aerospace, nuclear, transportation, medical). The offeror must have a minimum of 5 years� experience in providing R&D consultation support for safety-critical systems engineering across multiple industries (e.g., aerospace, nuclear, transportation, medical). Offeror must be familiar with regulatory considerations for safety-critical systems in at least one application sector (e.g., aerospace, nuclear, transportation, medical). Demonstrated capability for IV&V of safety-critical systems, esp. for certification or licensing purposes, for example: Ability to identify hazardous conditions introduced through the design, e.g., through interactions of the system with its environment (sensors; actuators; other systems and components; human-automation interactions) or through shared resources (signals; memory; computational resources; communication resources). Ability to formulate verifiable, unambiguous safety constraints to avoid or prevent such hazardous conditions. Ability to evaluate whether architectural specifications satisfy these safety constraints. Capability to perform a case study, demonstrating the application of the systems engineering approach in the safety evaluation of a safety-critical system (such as a nuclear reactor protection system), which has used correct-by-construction model-based system and software engineering including V&V. Capability to provide a systems engineering framework customized for the NRC�s environment. Services will be provided remotely to the NRC located in Rockville, Maryland.� The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541690. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME.� This request for sources and vendor information does not constitute a request for proposal; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred.� The purpose of this announcement is to provide potential sources the opportunity to submit information regarding their capabilities to perform work for the NRC free of conflict of interest (COI).� For information on NRC COI regulations, visit NRC Acquisition Regulation Subpart 2009.5 (http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/contracting/48cfr-ch20.html).� 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 small businesses) are invited to submit a response.� The capabilities package submitted by a vendor should demonstrate the firm's ability, capability, and responsibility to perform the principal components of work listed below.� The package should also include past performance/experience regarding projects of similar scope listing the project title, general description, the dollar value of the contract, and name of the company, agency, or government entity for which the work was performed. Organizations responding to this market survey should keep in mind that only focused and pertinent information is requested.� If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.� Submission of additional materials such as glossy brochures or videos is discouraged. HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE If your organization has the capability and capacity to perform, as a prime contractor, one or more of the services described in this notice, then please respond to this notice and provide written responses to the following information.� Please do not include any proprietary or otherwise sensitive information in the response, and do not submit a proposal.� Proposals submitted in response to this notice will not be considered. Organization name, address, emails address, Web site address and telephone number. What size is your organization with respect to NAICS code identified in this notice (i.e., ""small"" or ""other than small"")? If your organization is a small business under the aforementioned NAICS code, what type of small business (i.e., small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business, economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, 8(a), or HUBZone small business)? Specify all that apply. Separately and distinctly describe your organization�s ability to meet the capabilities indicated in the above section, required capabilities. Indicate whether your organization offers any of the required capabilities described in this notice on one or more of your company's own Federal Government contracts (i.e., GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract or Government wide Acquisition Contracts) that the NRC could order from and, if so, which services are offered. �Also, provide the contract number(s) and indicate what is currently available for ordering from each of those contract(s). Is your organization currently performing or have in the past performed same or similar services as those listed above for any of the licensees regulated by the NRC? If so, which licensees? See http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/licensing.html for more information on NRC licensing. Has your organization previously faced organizational conflict of interest issues with NRC? If so, what were they and how were they mitigated or resolved? Interested organizations responding to this Sources Sought Synopsis are encouraged to structure capability statements in the order of the area of consideration noted above.� All capability statements sent in response to this notice must be submitted electronically, via e-mail, Jeffrey Mitchell, at Jeffrey.Mitchell@nrc.gov , either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), by February 12, 2024, by noon EST. DISCLAIMER AND NOTES:� Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization�s potential capability and capacity to perform the subject work.� Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted.� After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in sam.gov.� However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.
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