The Department of Energy is seeking information from vendors interested in operating the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
The agency on Tuesday issued a request for information and launched a website to provide details of the upcoming contract competition to manage the nuclear physics laboratory.
TJNAF, which is based in Newport News, Virginia, is a federally funded research and development center that specializes in superconducting radiofrequency, or SRF, technology. R&D activities at the site also involve accelerator science and technology and large-scale user facilities and advanced instrumentation.
DOE plans to turn the accelerator into a multi-purpose laboratory that will house the Office of Science’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research center.
Interested parties may submit their RFI responses to the agency until March 6.