SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Fuel Cell Technologies and Vehicle Technolgies Support Services
- Notice Date
- 3/12/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 561499
— All Other Business Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (DOE Contractor), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado, 80401
- ZIP Code
- 80401
- Solicitation Number
- 91175djb
- Archive Date
- 4/10/2010
- Point of Contact
- Deborah J Bullard, Phone: 303-384-6876
- E-Mail Address
-
deborah_bullard@nrel.gov
(deborah_bullard@nrel.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has a principal task to conduct research and development (R&D) for the next generation of technologies in support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies and Vehicle Technologies Programs. NREL’s support for the DOE programs integrates research and development, assessment of technology, manufacturing, and commercialization status and readiness, cross-cutting manufacturing R&D, market transformation, technical validation, computer modeling, outreach and other activities. In addition to value-added work on fuel cells and other alternative fuel technologies, the integration of these technologies with other renewable energy technologies, and dissemination of the information is of increasing importance. NREL seeks sources to assist NREL in supporting the DOE and industry across these integrated activities on an as needed basis. The support required is excellent technical writing, communication, and customer service skills, working knowledge of alternative fuels and fuel cell technologies, and the ability to assist NREL with identifying future work needed to move the technologies forward. The main focus is on fuel cell manufacturing and analysis/modeling. The codes and standards focus is minimal. Activities are anticpated to be participation in meetings and reporting back to NREL as well as participation in outreach activities to help improve those activities. The effort will include the following: Meet with industry and other pertinent organizations to gather research, technology, manufacturing, and commercialization information, as well as other information as requested; Provide technical support to NREL; Report findings to NREL on a regular basis, as well as on an as-requested basis. Type of effort is envisioned as follows: Analysis: 1.Perform analysis of codes and standards to identify gaps and make recommendations about how these gaps could be addressed 2.Perform computational analyses, such as modeling analyses, to evaluate hazards and definite prevention and mitigation strategies 3.Provide assistance on analysis of real-world stationary fuel cell installations to better inform stakeholders about both potential benefits and potential financial and technological risks. These installations will include, but are not limited to, backup power, combined heat and power, and combined heat, hydrogen and power, and biogas installations. 4.Techno-economic analysis involving the use of the Fuel Cell Power model, as well as any other analytic support models needed to better understand particular installations or larger energy systems, such as use of hydrogen in vehicles or electricity arbitrage scenarios. 5.Collaborate with NREL to characterize a set of hydrogen vehicle deployment scenarios that account for hypothetical advances in particular technologies as well as adoption of commercialization strategies by particular stakeholders. The analytic support will include, but is not limited to, cost estimation and infrastructure component performance estimates, spatial optimization of infrastructure rollout on a national scale, and economic analysis of multiple vehicle and fuel technologies competing in the light duty vehicle market under a range of policy conditions. 6.Quantitative assessment of a future carbon-constrained scenario in which multiple advanced vehicle and fuel technologies compete both within the household vehicle market and in related markets such as heavy duty vehicles, chemicals, distributed power and large-scale low-carbon electricity generation and storage. The viability of different pathways will be assessed in terms of changes in cost and performance attributes over time and potential revenue streams from different future markets. 7.Develop and apply a spatial optimization model to project the cost and performance at a component level of future infrastructure developments needed for various biomass to vehicle fuel pathways. The cost optimization routine must take into account the spatial distribution of existing biomass resources, limitations on potential locations of facility installations, changes in system performance and cost over time and the future spatial variation in fuel demand. The optimization model will be used to provide input to large scale infrastructure rollout studies, and will be developed in collaboration with NREL researchers to represent the future implications of meeting or not meeting particular technology and cost goals. Data Collection: 1.Perform tests or collect data required to support the development of codes and standards. 2.Assist NREL in understanding manufacturing needs of various types of fuel cells, by gathering and assessing information from industry, academia, and other national labs. Technical Support: 1.Participate in the codes and standards development process by attending meetings, coordinating projects, and helping draft codes and standards text. 2.Provide technical input to the codes and standards test laboratory. 3.Assist NREL in providing technical support to DOE’s Market Transformation activity, including supporting DOE at conferences and meetings, in developing planning and program documents, and in facilitating the specification, purchase, and installation of fuel cells and other hydrogen technologies at federal government facilities. 4.Assist NREL in providing technical support in the area of fuel cell R&D to the DOE Fuel Cell Technologies program office. 5.Assist NREL in providing technical support in the area of fuel cell manufacturing to the DOE Fuel Cell Technologies program office. 6.Assist NREL by directly engaging with stakeholders and collaborating on both analysis of particular installations and development of case studies for publication as NREL reports. Material for the case studies will involve identification of technological and institutional barriers to deployment. 7.Provide NREL with feedback on how to revise the Fuel cell Power model to improve the representation of technological systems and to provide useful and relevant information to stakeholders and decision makers. 8.Help in the development of outreach products such as workshops, web training materials, fact sheets, and videos In order to determine qualifications of interested sources, please provide evidence of the following: 1.Extensive computational and modeling software applications knowledge 2.Database maintenance, development, and analysis capabilities 3.Knowledge of codes and standards development processes 4.Excellent communication and writing skills 5.Experience and knowledge of fuel cell manufacturing and analysis Preferred: 1.Experience working with government officials 2.Experience working with the public and outreach activities for the purpose of educating and/or disseminating information. THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE, NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. VERBAL REPLIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. QUESTIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. ALL RESPONSES MUST BE IN WRITING (HARD COPY OR E-MAIL). Responses to this notice should not exceed 20 pages. Responses must be received at NREL by Friday, March 26, 2010, at 4:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time either by e-mail or in writing to the following: Deborah Bullard, Senior Supervisor National Renewable Energy Laboratory MS 1533, 1617 Cole Blvd. Golden, CO 80401-3393 or deborah.bullard@nrel.gov
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