Tank Bottom Processing Best Practices Review Service

The Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council is seeking a contractor to provide a tank bottom processing best practices review service for the Valdez Marine Terminal in Valdez, Alaska. The agency needs to evaluate the inherent risks of operating fired equipment within a secondary containment dike cell through a siting and layout gap analysis. To address potential safety hazards, the agency requires a qualitative vapor risk assessment of vapor cloud migration from active storage tanks to identified ignition sources under worst-case meteorological conditions and facility topography. The scope of work also includes a qualitative coincident risk evaluation of a primary containment failure or unexpected vapor release occurring simultaneously with tank bottom processing. Additionally, the contractor must perform a safety system gap analysis that synthesizes known failures from the August 2023 incident to identify necessary engineering controls, specifically evaluating safety integrity level-rated automated interlocks, high and low-level alarms, and emergency shutdown protocols. When internal terminal data is unavailable, the agency requires the contractor to utilize professional engineering judgment and benchmarking to develop grounded technical deductions. Only onshore organizations based in the United States are eligible to bid on this opportunity. The selected contractor must perform the required work onsite at the terminal facility in Valdez, Alaska. The agency is currently looking for proposals to establish the budget for this project, and no specific key dates or further evaluation criteria are provided in the sourcing details.