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Workload, Situational Awareness, and Teamwork

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) plans to issue a Request for Proposal for the project titled "Workload, Situational Awareness, and Teamwork." This project focuses on enhancing the NRC staff's review of human factors engineering programs related to nuclear power plant control stations. The contractor will develop a comprehensive knowledge base, guidelines, and evaluation tools addressing human performance aspects such as workload, situational awareness, and teamwork, especially in the context of advanced technologies in nuclear power plant control rooms. The work aims to support the NRC's licensing, inspection, and risk-informed decision-making processes by providing validated methods for assessing human performance and linking these assessments to plant safety outcomes. The approach involves creating a knowledge base of assessment methods, developing guidelines for evaluating their feasibility and validity, adapting analytic methods specific to nuclear plant control stations, and experimentally testing these methods to generate practical guidance for NRC staff. The resulting deliverables will be integral to improving human factors engineering practices in regulatory reviews and safety assessments. The solicitation will be released on July 19, 2010, with proposals due by August 19, 2010, and will be available exclusively through the FedBizOpps website. The acquisition is open to all businesses, regardless of size or ownership status, and falls under NAICS code 541990, with a size standard of $7 million average annual revenue. The place of performance is in Washington, DC, and points of contact for this opportunity are available via email and phone.

General Info

NRC seeks contractor to develop tools improving human factors in nuclear plant safety assessments.

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NAICS

541990 - All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Place of Performance

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, WASHINGTON, DC, 20555-0001, USA

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PostedJul 2

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Contacts

Erika A. Eam

Sheila H. Bumpass

Full Description

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a full and open competition for the project entitled "Workload, Situational Awareness, and Teamwork." The NRC staff reviews the human factors engineering (HFE) programs of applicants for construction permits, operating licenses, standard design certifications, and combined operating licenses to ensure that personnel performance and reliability are appropriately supported. The NRC's HFE review guidelines involve assessment of human performance including workload, Situational Awareness (SA), and teamwork. The objectives of this contract is to develop a knowledge base, guidelines, and tools for evaluating the safety aspects of human performance associated with advanced technologies in Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) control stations. The results will be used in NRC's licensing and safety activities such as license application reviews, inspections, and risk-informed decision-making. The goals of this project are to provide a knowledge base and tools to assist in the evaluation of human performance. The project will take the following approach to achieve these goals: 1) develop a knowledge base of methods of assessing workload, SA, and teamwork, and develop guidelines of evaluating the feasibility and validity of the methods with respect to NPP control stations; 2) identify, adapt or hybridize, an analytic method of assessing the generic human performance measurements specific to NPP control room stations; and 3) experimentally test one or more methods to provide guidance for the NRC staff to use the methods and link the assessment results to plant safety. The deliverables from this project will be used for the HFE practices in the NRC's licensing review and safety activities. The RFP will be available on July 19, 2010 and will close on August 19, 2010. The solicitation will be available solely through FedBizOpps website at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. All future information regarding this acquisition, including solicitation amendments and Questions and Answers (Q&As), will be distributed solely through the FedBizOpps website. The FedBizOpps website provides downloading instructions. The solicitation document and its related documents, as appropriate, will be posted at this website. Therefore, interested parties are requested not to send letters, e-mails or faxes requesting copies of the RFP. Accordingly, telephone, mail, e-mail or fax requests will not be honoured. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring the FedBizOpps website to assure that they have the most up-to-date information regarding this acquisition. The Government will not reimburse interested parties for any costs associated with responding to this solicitation. The size standard for this acquisition is an average of $7.0 million over the past three years, as set forth under NAICS code 541990. Proposals for this requirement may be submitted by all concerns, i.e., large businesses, small business, and small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.