F108--Sources Sought - Radioactive Sealed Source Disposal Services - VA Black…

The VA Black Hills Health Care System, Fort Meade VA Medical Center is conducting market research to obtain Radioactive Sealed Source Disposal Services as described in the Preliminary Statement of Work below. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE only looking for businesses to provide the services listed in the Preliminary Statement of Work below for market research purposes. No proposals are being requested or accepted with this notice. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS OR PRICING AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS NOTICE. This notice shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Responses to this notice will be treated only as information for the Government to consider as part of their market research efforts. The information provided will be used by the Government in developing its acquisition strategy regarding possible set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Veteran-Owned, and other socio-economic categories of small business. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary, restricted or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to pay for the information submitted in response to this notice and parties responding will not be entitled to payment for direct or indirect costs incurred in responding to this notice. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 562211 Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal, with an SBA Small Business Size Standard of $47.0 Million. If you are a vendor capable of providing the requested information and required services described below with competitive pricing, send your information with a description of proof of capability and answers to all questions to: Alisha.Milander@va.gov on or before Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM Central Time. Please provide answers as appropriate to the following questions in the table below with your response to this Sources Sought. Failure to respond accurately to the following questions may affect the acquisition strategy. Failure to respond to the questions at all, or not respond to select individual questions, will result in your response being determined as non-responsive. 1. Please provide all socio-economic categories of your firm (e.g., SDVOSB, VOSB, WOSB, Large Business, 8a, etc.) as well as your firm s SAM Unique Entity ID number (replaces DUNS number) and Government Contract POC. 2. State whether the requested services may be ordered against a government contract awarded to your organization (e.g Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), General Services Administration (GSA), etc.). 3. State if subcontracting is contemplated for this requirement, what percentage of the work will be subcontracted, and for what tasks. 4. Provide estimated lead time to perform the services described in the Preliminary Statement of Work below. Vendors responding to this notice must show they can complete every task in the Preliminary Statement of Work within the period of performance listed in the ITEM INFORMATION below. If the given period of performance cannot be met for reasons outside a vendor s control, indicate in your response what those outside reasons/factors are. 5. Complete the yellow highlighted areas in the ITEM INFORMATION directly below this section for market research pricing for the services described in the Preliminary Statement of Work. ITEM INFORMATION ITEM NUMBER DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE AMOUNT 0001 1.00 JB $___________ $___________ Provide removal and disposal of radioactive sealed sources in accordance with the Statement of Work. Contract Period: Base POP Begin: 09-01-2026 POP End: 11-30-2026 PRINCIPAL NAICS CODE: 562211 Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal PRODUCT/SERVICE CODE: F108 Environmental Systems Protection Environmental Remediation PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF WORK PART I: GENERAL INFORMATION Introduction The Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Black Hills Health Care System (VA BHHCS) Fort Meade Campus, located at the address below, has a requirement for commercial radioactive waste removal for final disposition of liquid and solid uniform radioactive Low-Level Waste (LLW) to be completed by a qualified contractor in accordance with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations outlined in 10 CFR 20, 10 CFR 30, 10 CFR 40, 10 CRF 61, and 10 CFR 71, as well as all applicable United States Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations outlined in 49 CFR, and any applicable Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations for required training, handling, packaging, labeling, placarding, transporting, and final disposition. Location Address: Fort Meade VA Medical Center 113 Comanche Road Fort Meade, SD 57741 PART II: REQUIREMENTS Qualifications and Responsibilities of Contracted Personnel A qualified Contractor must have an active Radioactive Materials License (RML) granted by the NRC or an Agreement St