Publications

This report is a benchmarking studying for the Sandia Create Project provided by Cornerstone Project Management, Inc.

The Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC), a joint initiative of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), enhances the national security missions of NNSA by promoting greater collaboration between world-class scientists at the national security laboratories, and their partners in industry and academia. Strengthening the science, technology, and engineering (ST&E) base of our nation is one of the NNSA’s top goals. By conducting coordinated and collaborative programs, LVOC enhances both the NNSA and the broader national science and technology base, and helps to ensure the health of core capabilities at LLNL and SNL. These capabilities must remain strong to enable the laboratories to execute their primary mission for NNSA.

SNL/CA proposes the Collaboration in Research and Engineering for Advanced Technology and Education (CREATE) facility to support customer-driven national security mission requirements while demonstrating a fiscally responsible approach to cost-control. SNL/CA realizes that due to the current backlog of capital projects in NNSA that following the normal Line Item process to procure capital funding is unlikely and therefore SNL/CA will be looking at all options including Alternative Financing.

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During the next 10 years, Sandia’s most critical investments are as follows: 1) Complete the Sandia Silicon Fabrication Revitalization (SSiFR) initiative to replace outdated microelectronics production tools, capital equipment, and processes at the Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications (MESA) Complex. 2) Plan, design, and construct the Rad Hard Foundry to sustain the microelectronics-trusted foundry capability in support of critical microsystems science and technology (S&T) for NNSA and SPP. 3) Plan, design, and construct the Weapons Engineering Facility (WEF) to recapitalize core NW capabilities in R&D facilities and excess major buildings that are at the end of their designed service lives. 4) Plan, design, and construct the Emergency Operations and Response Center (EORC) to provide emergency incident management from a modern facility that serves and supports both local and national response teams. 5) Continue to facilitate the deactivation and eventual renovation or demolition of Building 892, a 60-year old facility that is rapidly approaching functional obsolescence.

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The attached cost analyses sheets have been developed for use in planning during the Third Party Alternative study currently underway for the Sandia CREATE project. This cost analysis builds upon the previously submitted base estimate dated June 14, 2013 and includes comparison information collected during a Market Validation exercise conducted in August/September 2013.