Contracts & Procurement

Only one of the major partners in the conglomerate that operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) registered for an Oct. 5 tour of the site in connection with a big legacy cleanup contract the Energy Department just put out for bids, DOE records show. According to a pretour […]

The Energy Department next week will shed more light on its procurement strategy for management and operations of the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., with the release of a request for information about the work. The request for information, the next drizzle of data in the procurement cycle after a draft statement of work […]

Lockheed Martin delivered Tuesday its proposal for the technology maturation and risk reduction phase of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) contract competition, and on Thursday identified the team of contractors that will offer technical support if Lockheed wins the award. The team encompasses General Dynamics for support on weapon system command and control; Draper Laboratory […]

The Wyoming Integrated Test Center said Wednesday it had selected Hladky Construction to construct the test labs at the facility. When completed, the test center will have six demonstration sites supplied with flue gas, power, and service water from the Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s Dry Fork Station power plant. These sites will be available for […]

The Energy Department next week will shed more light on its procurement strategy for management and operations of the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., with the release of a request for information about the work. The request for information, the next drizzle of data in the procurement cycle after a draft statement of work the agency […]

Only one of the major partners in the conglomerate that operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) registered for an Oct. 5 tour of the site in connection with a big legacy cleanup contract the Energy Department just put out for bids, DOE records show. According to a pretour […]

Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), the management and operations contractor for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, is seeking multiple construction firms to compete in an upcoming solicitation for construction and design build services. The sources sought notice posted Saturday said LLNS plans to award multiple master task agreements for services involving “either design-build […]

BWX Technologies, parent of the outgoing incumbent on the Energy Department’s depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion contract, is considering whether to protest the award of a follow-on to an Atkins-led team that snatched the work away last week. The contract covers work at DOE’s former gaseous diffusion plants near Paducah, Ky., and Piketon, Ohio. BWXT […]

The Department of Energy is seeking a contractor to provide technical support services for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM). The five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract features a $20,000 minimum value of services and a $49 million maximum, according to the request for proposals issued on Thursday. The RFP is a small business set-aside and […]

The Department of Energy and Hanford Site prime contractors will hold the annual Bridging Partnerships Small Business Symposium on Oct. 19 at the TRAC Center in Pasco, Wash. An evening reception is planned the day before, with events scheduled from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 19 to help businesses learn contracting tips and tricks, […]

AECOM, BWX Technologies, and Fluor Corp. all bid on a 10-year liquid waste management contract at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., that could be worth $4 billion to $6 billion, sources told Weapons Complex Monitor. The Energy Department would not authorize anyone to comment on the record for this story. […]

An Atkins-led joint venture beat out four competing bids for a five-year, $318 million Energy Department contract to operate depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at DOE’s former gaseous diffusion plants near Paducah, Ky., and Piketon, Ohio. Atkins partnered with Fluor Corp. and Westinghouse to form Mid-America Conversion Services. The companies announced their winning bid […]

AREVA said Monday it  has won a multimillion-dollar contract to design and manufacture 30 used fuel transportation and dry storage casks for Belgian nuclear power reactors Doel 3 and 4 and Tihange 1, 2, and 3. AREVA signed the contract with Synatom, a subsidiary of French group Engie. The contract is worth “several millions of euros,” […]

Honeywell Federal Manufacturing &  Technology’s internal cost allowability audits have been reliable, the Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General (IG) found in a Sept. 21 assessment report of the contractor’s audits from fiscal 2012 through 2014. Honeywell FM&T has served as the management and operations  contractor for the National Security Campus at Kansas City, Mo., […]

Amec Wheeler Foster said Monday it has won a £7 million ($9 million) contract to design and build a new effluent treatment plant at Scotland’s shuttered Dounreay nuclear facility. Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd. (DSRL), which is leading the decommissioning of the fast reactor research site in Caithness, awarded the contract. The treatment plant will serve […]

Consolidated Nuclear Security said this week it anticipates success in its campaign to hire 1,150 new employees in fiscal 2016, which ends on Sept. 30. “More than 800 people have accepted offers in fiscal year 2016 with CNS, and with the remaining offers being extended CNS will meet its hiring goals for this year,” company […]

Centrus Energy, of Bethesda, Md., said Thursday it has received a one-year, $25 million contract from UT-Battelle to continue the experimental uranium enrichment program known as the American Centrifuge at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The American Centrifuge project has shrunk considerably since 2015, when the Energy Department pulled the plug on an […]

A decades’ worth of cleanup work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which including options is valued at $1.7 billion, is officially out for bids, the agency’s Office of Environmental Management announced late Wednesday. The work entails cleaning up Cold War-era waste, both toxic and radioactive, scattered throughout the sprawling, 36-square-mile LANL campus. Big […]

A decades’ worth of cleanup work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which including options is valued at $1.7 billion, is officially out for bids, the agency’s Office of Environmental Management announced late Wednesday. The work entails cleaning up Cold War-era waste, both toxic and radioactive, scattered throughout the sprawling, 36-square-mile LANL campus. Big […]

A trucking industry safety group will continue to train transportation safety officials to inspect shipments of radioactive waste headed to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., under a $1.7 million, five-year cooperative agreement the Energy Department announced late Tuesday. The Greenbelt, Md.-based Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance will “coordinate and implement activities to train Motor […]

AREVA’s bondholders on Monday approved the partial transfer of assets and bond debt from AREVA SA to new spinoff entity NewCo, which will focus on nuclear fuel cycle services. AREVA has valued the transfer of assets and liabilities at 1.4 billion euros, or 2 billion euros when accounting for tax consolidation. The fuel cycle operations include mining and front-end […]

In its continued effort to apply lessons learned from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has awarded a research contract worth up to $2.2 million for two groups to analyze severe disasters at nuclear power plants. At Fukushima, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered a 15-meter tsunami, cutting the plant’s power […]

About a dozen companies “are engaged” in the solicitation process for the Energy Department’s new request for proposals (RFP) for its $35 million deep borehole nuclear waste storage field test, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Wednesday at a Senate subcommittee hearing. The department on Tuesday held a pre-proposal meeting in Las Vegas to discuss the […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Energy Department will award hundreds of millions of dollars of work for continued operation of depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion (DUF6) plants at the Paducah Site in Kentucky and the Portsmouth Site in Ohio later this month, a senior DOE procurement official said here Wednesday. “Somebody asked me yesterday if we’re going […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Energy Department will award hundreds of millions of dollars of work for continued operation of depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion (DUF6) plants at the Paducah Site in Kentucky and the Portsmouth Site in Ohio later this month, a senior DOE procurement official said here Wednesday. “Somebody asked me yesterday if we’re going […]

The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center on Wednesday released a sources sought/request for information for contractors ready to provide disposal of low-level and mixed-low-level waste (LLW/MLLW). The work would involve safe transport and disposal of such waste, along with Section 11e.(2) byproduct material; technologically enhanced, naturally occurring radioactive material (TENORM); and sealed sources. […]

In its continued effort to apply lessons learned from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has awarded a research contract worth up to $2.2 million for two groups to analyze severe disasters at nuclear power plants. At Fukushima, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered a 15-meter tsunami, cutting the plant’s power and […]

Management and operations contracts administered by the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management escaped some of the criticism leveled in a new Government Accountability Office report at the more expansive M&O deals used in DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The report, “Department of Energy: Actions Needed to Strengthen Acquisition Planning for Management and Operating Contracts,” was published Aug. […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Defense Science is extending for two months its task order with Corporate Allocation Services Inc. (CAS), for technical and analytics support services associated with the 1958 United States-United Kingdom Mutual Defense Agreement, according to a Sept. 9 limited sources justification notice. Under the mutual defense agreement, the […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) is not doing enough to explore alternative approaches to its management and operating (M&O) contracts, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released Thursday. The government spent nearly $19 billion on 22 DOE M&O contracts in fiscal 2015, three-quarters of its total spending, the report said. DOE did […]