Contracts & Procurement

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) on Monday issued a request for proposals for a technical services support contract for its Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. The RPF is a small-business set aside for an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract line item number with a maximum value of services of $40 million. It covers cybersecurity, information-technology […]

Montreal-based project management giant SNC-Lavalin as of Monday is the new owner of British engineering company WS Atkins, an increasingly significant contractor in cleanup of the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear complex. The £ 2.1 billion ($2.7 billion) deal brings the 18,000-employee Atkins, and its $3.5 billion (CAN) in annual revenue, under the SNC-Lavalin umbrella, according […]

Friday was Stephen Kadenacy’s last day as president and chief operating officer of global engineering firm AECOM, one of the major contractors at Department of Energy nuclear sites around the country. Kadenacy has been with AECOM for nearly a decade, starting as senior vice president for finance in 2008 and rising to president and COO […]

UCOR, prime cleanup contractor for the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge site in Tennessee, took home about 92 percent of its possible award fee for the six-month period that ended March 31, raking in roughly $3.6 million. The company, an AECOM-led consortium now working under the first and final option of a nine-year contract set to expire […]

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Thursday demanded the Energy Department brief Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs staff by July 21 about what the senior senator from Missouri considers a questionable contracting arrangement between Bechtel National and AECOM at DOE’s Hanford Site in Washington state. McCaskill, the committee’s ranking Democrat, questioned in a letter to […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration on Tuesday issued a presolicitation notice for the next management and operations contract for its Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The notice comes just days after the semiautonomous Department of Energy agency said it is investigating the improper shipment of nuclear material from the laboratory to sister sites […]

UCOR, prime cleanup contractor for the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge site, took home about 92 perdent of its possible award fee for the six-month period that ended March 31, raking in roughly $3.6 million. The company, an AECOM-led consortium now working under the first and final option of a nine-year contract set to expire July 31, […]

Veolia Nuclear Solutions said last week it has picked up its first nuclear remediation contract in Canada. The nuclear cleanup services branch of French waste management group has been selected to design, build, and commission a system for remediation of intermediate- and low-level waste stored at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ shuttered Whiteshell Laboratories in Manitoba. The […]

Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Professional Project Services Inc. edged out five other bidders to sustain its position as provider of technical support services for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management. The new indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a value of $20,000 to $49 million over five years. It covers firm-fixed-price and time-and-materials task […]

Veolia Nuclear Solutions said last week it has picked up its first nuclear remediation contract in Canada. The nuclear cleanup services branch of French waste management group has been selected to design, build, and commission a system for remediation of intermediate- and low-level waste stored at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ shuttered Whiteshell Laboratories in Manitoba. The […]

Stakeholders have until July 14 to comment on a draft request for proposals from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) for a new contract for disposal of low-level and mixed-low-level waste. Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions hold the current contracts for transport and disposition of DOE wasate, which also cover Section 11e.(2) byproduct […]

The liquid waste contractor for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina wants a federal judge to throw out a discrimination lawsuit, saying the former employee and plaintiff “has failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.” The lawsuit, filed April 24, is one of two open discrimination suits against Savannah […]

Albuquerque, N.M.-based STC Environmental Services has secured a five-year contract worth up to $4 million to provide support services for the headquarters of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM). The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract covers technical, regulatory, environmental, and planning support services, according to an EM press release Tuesday. It will encompass firm-fixed-price […]

The liquid waste contractor for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina wants a federal judge to throw out a discrimination lawsuit, saying the former employee and plaintiff “has failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.” The lawsuit, filed on April 24, is one of two open discrimination suits against Savannah […]

Bruce Covert has officially taken over as president and project manager of Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP), the prime contractor for the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, DOE announced Monday. Covert replaces Philip Breidenbach, who oversaw the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s (WIPP) recovery since 2015 and will return to one of NWP’s […]

An article in the June 8 edition of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, “Nevada Site Incumbent Files M&O Bid Protest,” incorrectly stated that the protesting company was the site incumbent. Nuclear Security & Technology LLC, while it contains some of the same partners, is different from incumbent National Security Technologies LLC. BWX Technologies is not a […]

The contractor building the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina, locked in a dispute with the federal government over the project’s future, argued the Energy Department’s failure to negotiate a contract modification “in good faith” is costing the company money. On June 1, the U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals denied CB&I AREVA […]

WASHINGTON — In a mostly symbolic milestone that nevertheless carries measurable cost savings, the Energy Department could close out Washington Closure Hanford’s contract by the end of 2017, a senior DOE official said here Wednesday. “I think we may be at the end of this year able to say we have everything done to close […]

When Westinghouse Government Services opened an office just outside Washington, D.C., this week, the resurgent nuclear-cleanup contractor threw itself a little housewarming party. Many of the guests were members of what company President Cathy Hickey calls “the DOE contractors club:” a tight-knit group of sometimes-competitive, sometimes-cooperative outfits that includes heavyweights such as AECOM, Bechtel, BWX […]

The Energy Department this week was to debrief the runners-up for the potentially 10-year, $1.5 billion contract won by a CH2M-led team for continued cleanup of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky. DOE received four bids for the contract, which the agency announced May 26 went to Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership. The team also includes […]

The contractor building the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina, locked in a dispute with the federal government over the project’s future, argued the Energy Department’s failure to negotiate a contract modification “in good faith” is costing the company money. On June 1, the U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals denied CB&I AREVA […]

A second failed bidder has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the new management and operations contract for the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site. Nuclear Security & Technology LLC, a partnership between Northrop Grumman Technical Services, AECOM subsidiary URS Federal Services, and CH2M Hill Constructors Inc., filed its protest […]

The incumbent contractor at the Nevada National Security Site is the second failed bidder to file a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the new management and operations contract at the site. Nuclear Security & Technology, LLC, a variation on current prime National Security Technologies – a partnership between Northrop Grumman, AECOM, CH2M […]

The contractor building the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina, locked in a dispute with the federal government over the project, argued the Energy Department’s failure to negotiate its contract “in good faith” is costing the company money. On June 1, the U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals denied CB&I AREVA MOX Services’ […]

The bidding team that lost its initial contract award for management and operation of the Nevada National Security Site has filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office. Nevada Site Science Support and Technologies Corp. (NVS3T), a partnership between Leidos, Fluor Federal Services, and consulting firm Longenecker & Associates, filed the protest on May […]

CAST Specialty Transportation will haul transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant over the next five years under a potentially $112 million contract announced by the Energy Department Thursday. Under the deal, an indefinite-quantity, indefinite-delivery contract using firm fixed-price task orders, CAST “will provide facilities, personnel, and equipment to operate a local terminal within […]

Bechtel National earned just over $7 million in fees for its work building the Waste Treatment Plant at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site near Richland Wash.: good for 71 percent of the total available for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2016. DOE grades Bechtel in two major categories: the less-quantifiable project management category, which […]

Jeff Kerridge was appointed senior vice president of business development for AECOM’s Nuclear and Environment business unit, the company announced late Tuesday. Kerridge is responsible for “implementing strategies to build the N&E business [and] have responsibility for assuring quality and consistency in business development pursuits,” Los Angeles-based AECOM wrote in a press release. Kerridge was […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded SOC, LLC a contract for security protective force services at the Nevada National Security Site and the agency’s field office facilities, NNSA announced Wednesday. The contract is valued at roughly $202.9 million over 5 years, with all options, for security at the Nevada site; the Remote Sensing Laboratory […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded SOC, LLC a contract for security protective force services at the Nevada National Security Site and the agency’s field office facilities, NNSA announced Wednesday. The contract is valued at roughly $202.9 million over 5 years, with all options, for security at the Nevada site; the Remote Sensing Laboratory […]