Bechtel Government Services Canada has joined with Hatch Ltd. and Golder Associates Ltd. to bid on the new contract to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s Chalk River laboratories under the team name Canadian Nuclear Revitalization Partners, the team announced yesterday. The Canadian government’s procurement for a contract to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear laboratories, including the Chalk River Laboratories, the Whiteshell Laboratories, the three prototype reactor sites and the Laprade heavy water storage site under a Government-owned Contractor-operated (GoCo) model, is still in the Request for Response Evaluation phase. “The CNRP team is an exciting combination of industry leaders with demonstrated experience and impressive depth,” said John Howanitz, general manager for Nuclear Security and Operations at Bechtel. “Our team complements the labs’ mission and is equipped to ensure that the laboratories and surrounding communities thrive. CNRP is a purpose-built team designed to meet Canada’s objectives and promote the world-class status of the enterprise.”
The Canadian Nuclear Revitalization Partners joins three other teams that have as of late July qualified to move forward in the procurement process, Natural Resources Canada announced in earlier this month. The other teams include: Innovation Canada Alliance, made up of B&W, Battelle, and the U.K. firm Cavendish Nuclear; Canadian Nuclear Energy Alliance, made up of EnergySolutions, CH2M Hill, Lockheed Martin and SNC Lavalin; and Northern Nuclear Laboratories Alliance, which is believed to be made up of URS and Ontario Power Generation, although the companies have not officially made any formal announcements. Additional teams have until Sept. 9 to submit under the RFRE, an extension from the previous Aug. 6 deadline.
