The Department of Energy, Savannah River Operations Office has a requirement to manage and operate the Savannah River Site (SRS).

The NNSA Mission

• The NNSA, established by Congress per the NNSA Act (Title XXXII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, Public Law 106-65) as a semiautonomous element within DOE, is responsible for the management and security of the nation’s nuclear weapons, nonproliferation, and naval nuclear propulsion programs. It also responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the United States and abroad, and NNSA federal agents provide safe and secure transportation of nuclear weapons, components, and special nuclear materials.

The NNSA Organization

• NNSA consists of multiple mission offices – the Offices of Defense Programs; Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation including the Nuclear Counterterrorism and Incident Response Program; Naval Reactors; Office of Infrastructure; Defense Nuclear Security – and various mission support offices such as the Offices of Policy; Partnership and Acquisition Services; Environment, Safety, and Health; Information Management; Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation; Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs; Communications; and Management and Budget. These offices work closely with NNSA Field Offices to execute and oversee the NNSA mission across the National Security Enterprise (NSE) which includes the various site and headquarters locations.
• NNSA relies on M&O contractors to manage day-to-day site operations and to adhere to its policies when operating its laboratories, production plants, and other facilities in the NSE. Together, the M&O contractors implement NNSA’s wide ranging mission goals including the Stockpile Stewardship Program managed by Defense Programs, which comprises operations associated with logistics, surveillance, assessment, maintenance, surety, refurbishment, modernization, manufacture, and dismantlement of the nuclear weapons stockpile as well as research, development, qualification, and certification efforts; and the nuclear nonproliferation, counterterrorism, and counterproliferation programs managed by NA-20 and NA-80 respectively to include activities to minimize the need for, presence of, or production of weapons-usable nuclear material across the world and monitoring and verification in support of arms control and nuclear incident response.

Principal Location of Performance

• The work under this Contract is to be carried out at the SRS which is a 310-square mile site containing a multitude of federal industrial and nuclear facilities located in Aiken, Allendale, and Barnwell Counties in South Carolina.

This Contract will fully support the DOE and NNSA Strategic Vision and NNSA’s management of a fully integrated, interdependent, and effective Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE), consisting of all eight NNSA sites. It will also support the ongoing EM mission work at SRS. The Contract will ensure these outcomes by achieving the following eight specific strategic objectives:

• Meeting annual established deliverables/requirements while also identifying ways to improve site performance and gain operational efficiencies in the overall completion of national security missions for nuclear production operations including tritium and plutonium operations; and supporting nonproliferation and counterproliferation activities requiring SRS facilities and capabilities;
• Modernizing and maintaining site infrastructure to ensure near- and long-term reliable production operations and improving performance of infrastructure project planning and execution;
• Developing and deploying new technologies, processes, and procedures to reduce risk to mission delivery;
• Recruiting, developing, training, and retaining the workforce and leadership cadre necessary to complete the work at SRS in both the short- and long-terms;
• Delivering on complete mission and project portfolio while implementing efficiencies that accelerate schedule and reduce cost;
• Identifying and supporting actions that continue to improve the integration required for the DOE/NNSA enterprise to enable success for the SRS mission(s);
• Execute clean-up mission including but not limited to deactivation and decommissioning of legacy facilities constructed in support of industrial operations, common infrastructure systems, and past nuclear materials production, such as the 235-F Plutonium Processing Facility, C/K/L Reactors; and
• Reduce risks and protect the environment and community through ongoing environmental remediation programs and systems.

The objective of this Contract is to perform all necessary operational, coordination, and management functions required to support the NNSA and broader national security missions assigned to the SRS. This includes but is not limited to all ongoing missions (e.g., defense and nonproliferation programs), projects (e.g., infrastructure modernization), and functions (e.g., safety, security, cyber security, etc.), as well as those that may be assigned during the term of the Contract. It further includes all infrastructure management and maintenance; information technology and state-of-the-art cybersecurity protocols and applications; human resource management including critical skills recruitment, training, and retention; environmental and waste management; emergency management, health, safety, security systems; safeguards; and purchasing and other administrative systems.

In the execution of this Contract, and particularly program integration, the Contractor shall meet rigorous quality, reliability, safety, and security standards essential for the U.S. nuclear deterrent; maintain sufficient production capability and capacity necessary to produce at rates defined in NNSA directive and planning documents; and implement flexible and resilient production management and execution processes to accommodate a dynamic national security environment. The Contractor shall balance risk management and lifecycle cost reduction to provide optimized value to the Government. This includes leveraging commercial practices to reduce risk and improve mission delivery. This applies both internally to this Contract and contributing to the overall cost efficiency of the NSE.

The Contractor shall be fully responsible and accountable for the safe, reliable, and secure accomplishment of all work meeting mission requirements regardless of the location of performance, whether performed by its own personnel or team members, subcontractors, staff augmentation, Inter-Entity Work Order, or other agreement or arrangement. The Contractor shall be responsible for performance of analyses requested by Program offices, planning and coordinating production and modernization schedules; integrating, managing and executing the programs; supporting and executing large and small projects; working collaboratively with National Laboratories to develop and deploy modern and essential technologies and capabilities; and completing operations and other activities as described in this SOW and Work Authorizations issued by the Contracting Officer.