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13 -- LICENSED 8A CERTIFIED CONTRACTORS INVOLVED WITH INSPECTION, PACKAGING/REPACKAGING, AND TRAMSPORTATION OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVEWASTE POC Technical POC: Sharyll O'Neal, Contracting Officer: Bob Matthys SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT The U. S. Army Industrial Operations Command needs licensed 8a certified contractors with varying capabilities involved with the inspection, packaging/repackaging, and transportation of low-level radioactive waste. The contractor may be required to perform the various tasks to include the following: (1) Travel to various government installations CONUS/OCONUS, (2) Perform site surveys on instruments, sources, soil, water, building, vehicles, etc., (3) Decontaminate equipment or areas for free release, (4) Identify radionuclides and activities or concentrations, (5) Identify hazardous elements of waste material, (6) Packaging-must be familiar with NRC/DOT requirements, burial site conditions, etc., (7) Ship-may be required to load packaged waste IAW NRC, DOT and burial site laws and regulations for transportation CONUS/OCONUS. This also includes the preparation of all necessary shipping papers, (8) Liquids-may be required to provide mobile services to perform solidification of liquids, (9) Explosive Ordnance Disposal-may be responsible for ordnance decontamination and removal or ordnance residue to an approved collection facility. This task will also include the technical knowledge, training and capability to perform Blow and Go detonation on unexploded ordnance (10) Target Refurbishment/Replacement- may be required to construct, refurbish and/or replace targets and target support structures and dispose of target debris at an approved collection facility, (11) Excavation of ordnance burial pits-may be required to excavate ordnance burial pits and certify pits are ordnance free (12) Soil/Water sampling/analysis-will have the capability to collect water/soil samples and provide scientific analyses and reports on the samples. Contractor(s) must already be certified 8a or certification pending within 90 days. Contractor must have a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) or an Agreement State license. Contractor must have access to an Industrial Operations Command approved broker for shipping low-level radioactive waste. Technical POC is Mrs. Sharyll O'Neal, AMSIO-SF, e-mail oneals@ioc.army.mil; Contracting Officer is Mr. Bob Matthys, AMSIO-ACE-D, e-mail matthysb@ioc.army.mil. Interested Contractors should contact the contracting officer via the e-mail address listed above. Posted 11/16/99 (W-SN401216). (0320)

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