Contracts & Procurement

The Energy Department on Thursday issued the final request for proposals for the 222-S Laboratory Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The RFP was posted on the DOE Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center website for the procurement. Questions on the solicitation are due before noon Eastern time on Feb. 28 and should be […]

More than 45 people registered for the Jan. 24 site tour and industry briefing on the Tank Closure Contract at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, including some major contractors in the weapons complex. Companies represented at the gathering included: AECOM; AVANTech; Bechtel; Booz Allen Hamilton; BWX Technologies; Columbia Energy and Environmental […]

The prime contractor for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Y-12 and Pantex sites spent about $30 million from 2016 to 2018 to create consolidated business information systems it says will save the government nearly $3 billion over the life of a 10-year site management contract, according to the Government Accountability Office. That is less than […]

Los Angeles-based AECOM is eyeing work in the nuclear security complex, Randall Wotring, the company’s chief operating officer, said this week. On a Tuesday quarterly earnings conference call with investors, Wotring suggested AECOM will be an active bidder not just on Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear cleanup contracts, but also on “defense-type projects” at the […]

The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management has set up a website devoted to providing information on the end states contracting model. End states, as defined in December special notice from the DOE cleanup office, is a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracting approach with the flexibility to cover both cost-reimbursement and firm-fixed-price task orders within the […]

The waiting game for re-award of a multibillion-dollar contract for liquid waste management at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina might be over soon, an AECOM executive said Tuesday. “We expect the Savannah River Site to be awarded any day now,” Chief Operating Officer Randall Wotring said during the company’s quarterly […]

Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering brought in $3.1 billion in revenue during the quarter ended Dec. 31, 73 percent higher than the $1.8 billion reported for the same period one year earlier Jacobs, which has a wide footprint in the Energy Department nuclear cleanup complex through subsidiary CH2M, reported earnings today for the first quarter of its […]

Two Tennessee-based firms, RSI Entech and Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve), appear set to keep their technical support business for the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) through the end of the year. The Energy Department said in a Jan. 11 notice of intent it expects to negotiate an agreement to keep RSI on from […]

The prime contractor for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Y-12 and Pantex sites spent about $30 million from 2016 to 2018 to create consolidated business information systems it says will save the government nearly $3 billion over the life of a 10-year site management contract, accpording to the Government Accountability Office. That is less than […]

AECOM on Tuesday reported $5 billion in revenue Tuesday for the quarter ended Dec, 31, about 3 percent more than the $4.9 billion reported in the same period one year earlier. Net income attributable to AECOM came in at $52 million, down 54 percent from $111 million reported in the same quarter a year ago.  […]

Two mainstays of Energy Department contracting, Los Angeles-based AECOM and Dallas-based Jacobs, will post quarterly earnings reports this week. AECOM will post its earnings before the stock market opens Tuesday, followed by a conference call with Wall Street analysts at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time. Jacobs will report earnings prior to the market opening Wednesday, followed […]

The Energy Department has awarded a 10-month, $4.8 million task order to Tennessee-based Aerostar Perma-Fix TRU Services for the second phase of the Test Bed Initiative (TBI) on disposal of radioactive waste from the Hanford Site in Washington state. The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced the cost-plus-fixed-fee task order under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract […]

The incumbent management and operations contractor and the vendor in charge of liquid waste at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina both received at least 90 percent of their potential fee in new performance evaluations. Fluor-led site prime Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) and AECOM-led Savannah River Remediation both received “excellent” overall […]

Hanford Site cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. received just 80 percent of its available fee for fiscal 2018, after the Department of Energy called it out for the second year in a row over its performance at the Plutonium Finishing Plant demolition. CH2M is responsible for environmental remediation in Hanford’s Central Plateau, plus […]

By Cal Biesecker Defense Daily General Dynamics, the Pentagon’s contractor for the next-generation ballistic-missile submarine, on Wednesday posted a strong finish to its fiscal year, delivering big gains in earnings and sales in the fourth quarter, aided in part by lower taxes and an acquisition last year. Net income in the quarter soared 43 percent to […]

Boeing, a central player on the Pentagon side of the current U.S. nuclear arsenal modernization, broke its own sales and earnings records for the year and quarter ended Dec. 31, the Chicago-based defense prime said Wednesday. Among other things, Boeing is working on designs for next-generation nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles and production of a tail […]

By Richard Abott Defense Daily Lockheed Martin on Jan. 30 won a $560 million modification to produce Trident II (D5) missiles for the U.S. and U.K. The Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs awarded this as a cost-plus-incentive-fee modification for Trident II missile production and deployed system support. The missile work will mostly be split among Magna, Utah […]

More work on nuclear-tipped missiles contributed to yearly and quarterly earnings gains in 2018 at Lockheed Martin, the Bethesda, Md.-based defense giant announced this week. Lockheed’s 2018 net earnings from continuing operations were more than $5 billion, or $17.59 a share in 2018: up more than two-and-a-half times from just under $2 billion in 2017. […]

Lockheed Martin on Jan. 30 won a $560 million modification to produce Trident II (D5) missiles for the U.S. and U.K. The Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs awarded this as a cost-plus-incentive-fee modification for Trident II missile production and deployed system support. The missile work will mostly be split among Magna, Utah (29 percent), Sunnyvale, Calif. (17 […]

Boeing, a central player on the Pentagon side of the current U.S. nuclear arsenal modernization regime, broke its own sales and earnings records for the year and quarter ended Dec. 31, the Chicago-based defense prime said Wednesday. Boeing, which among other things is working on designs for next-generation nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles and production of […]

More work on nuclear-tipped missiles contributed to yearly and quarterly earnings gains at Lockheed Martin. The defense contractor, of Bethesda, Md. released an early look earnings press release Tuesday ahead of a scheduled 11 a.m. earnings call. Lockheed’s 2018 earnings from continuing operations were more than $5 billion, or $17.59 a share, more than two-and-a-half times […]

The Energy Department has awarded a 10-month, $4.8 million task order to Tennessee-based Aerostar Perma-Fix TRU Services for test bed initiative (TBI) work at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced the cost-plus-fixed-fee task order under an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract that involves off-site treatment and disposal of […]

Hanford Site cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. received just 80 percent of its available fee for fiscal 2018, after the Department of Energy called it out for the second year in a row over its performance at the Plutonium Finishing Plant demolition. CH2M is responsible for environmental remediation in Hanford’s Central Plateau, plus […]

The incumbent management and operations contractor and the vendor in charge of liquid waste at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina both received at least 90 percent of their potential fee in new performance evaluations. Fluor-led site prime Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) and AECOM-led Savannah River Remediation both received “excellent” overall […]

Mission Support Alliance (MSA) has been awarded its largest fee since it began providing site-wide services at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in 2009. The DOE scorecard for fiscal 2018, released Thursday, showed Mission Support Alliance took home almost $21 million of the potential $22.2 million for its work at the DOE cleanup site […]

The cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has extended the deadline for proposals from subcontractors interested in providing off-site environmental analysis. In an updated notice posted Jan. 22 on FedBizOpps.gov, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) said the deadline had been pushed back from Jan. 21 to […]

The U.S. Energy Department on Jan. 17 issued an updated draft request for proposals for the Hanford Site Central Plateau Cleanup Contract, which serves as a model for the agency’s end-state procurement approach for environmental remediation. The DOE Office of Environmental Management issued the revision to better align the document with a special notice issued […]

The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management on Jan. 18 released the key sections of a draft request for proposals (RFP) for the next Tank Closure Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state. In particular, the agency is looking for industry feedback on its master indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract option, which it has suggested for […]

New Mexico-based Strategic Management Solutions is expected to receive a contract extension of up to nine months to provide technical support for conversion of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio and Paducah Site in Kentucky. The Energy Department Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) in Lexington, Ky., announced the prospective sole-source […]

The cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has extended the deadline for proposals from subcontractors interested in providing off-site environmental analysis. In an updated notice posted Jan. 22 on FedBizOpps.gov, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) said the deadline had been pushed back from Jan. 21 to […]