Seeking Contractor Input on Contracting

The National Nuclear Security Administration's job is to issue and oversee huge contracts for managing eight nuclear weapons complexes. Now the agency is looking to its contractors (and others) to tell it how to overhaul its contracting process. The agency has issued an official request for information on "consolidation of management and operating contracts, use of other types of contracts on a single or multiple facility basis, use of function-based contracts (e.g. construction, information technology) applicable to two or more sites, and transfer of work scope from one or more current contracts to other existing or new contracts."

The idea, NNSA says, is to explore "potential contracting alternatives and associated risks and costs for achieving NNSA's mission while promoting vigorous, full and open competition."