Contracts & Procurement

The Department of Energy is expected this week to finalize a list of contractors interested in a second round of bidding for its deep borehole nuclear waste storage field test. Friday marked the deadline for potential bidders to submit notices of intent to propose for the estimated $35 million, five-year project. The field test will help […]

Washington Closure Hanford on Monday transferred the last of its Hanford Site field cleanup work to CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. About 300 workers transferred with the projects to CH2M Hill or its subcontractors. Washington Closure, the Hanford River Corridor Closure prime contractor for 11 years, peaked at more than 1,200 workers in 2012 when […]

It was pencils down Tuesday for aspirant Energy Department contractors bidding on a 10-year liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., that could be worth $4 billion to $6 billion, including an option. AECOM, lead on the Savannah River Remediation (SRR) consortium in charge of the work today under an eight-year, $4.1 billion […]

Lawrence Livermore National Security, the management and operations contractor for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, is seeking a contractor to provide fire suppression and rescue services, according to a solicitation posted last week. The services will involve “fire prevention, [personnel] training, and site familiarization activities necessary to prepare for emergency operations,” the notice says. […]

The U.S. Air Force said Thursday that its Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) procurement has entered the technology maturation and risk reduction phase following the Aug. 23 approval of the program’s Milestone A. “The milestone approval was granted following a determination by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics that the Air Force’s […]

Less than a week after the award was announced, the National Nuclear Security Administration on Wednesday canceled the new contract for management and operation of the Nevada National Security Site. That puts the multibillion-dollar deal back in play, though only for the companies that submitted bids in the first go-around; new parties are not being […]

The Energy Department picked up the last two options on the stopgap legacy waste remediation contract it awarded to Los Alamos National Security (LANS) last year, keeping the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s chastened prime as lead cleanup contractor there for another year at a cost of roughly $155 million. The department announced the move in a […]

Less than a week after the award was announced, the multibillion-dollar management and operations contract for the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) is back in play for the current set of bidders. The Department of Energy’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration announced Wednesday that it had rescinded the contract deal to Nevada Site Science Support and Technologies […]

The Energy Department picked up the last two options on the stopgap legacy cleanup contract it awarded to Los Alamos National Security (LANS) last year, keeping the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s chastened prime as lead cleanup contractor there for another year at a cost of roughly $155 million. The department announced the move in a Wednesday press […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration on Wednesday said it was rescinding the management and operations contract award announced just last week for the Nevada National Security Site. The agency had previously told Weapons Complex Morning Briefing it was re-evaluating the contract issued to Nevada Site Science Support and Technologies Corp. (NVS3T) upon learning that the firm had […]

It’s pencils down today for aspirant Energy Department contractors bidding on a 10-year liquid waste cleanup contract at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., that could be worth $4 billion to $6 billion, including an option. AECOM, lead on the Savannah River Remediation (SRR) consortium in charge of the work today under an eight-year, $4.1 billion […]

Washington Closure Hanford on Monday transferred the last of its Hanford Site field cleanup work to CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. About 300 workers transferred with the projects to CH2M Hill or its subcontractors. Washington Closure, the Hanford River Corridor Closure prime contractor for 11 years, peaked at more than 1,200 workers in 2012 when […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration said Monday it is re-evaluating the contract award announced last week for management and operation of its Nevada National Security Site. The semiautonomous Department of Energy branch said Friday that Nevada Site Science Support and Technologies Corp. (NVS3T) had received a contract that could be worth $5 billion over 10 years, including […]

Lawrence Livermore National Security, the management and operations contractor for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, is seeking a contractor to provide fire suppression and rescue services, according to a solicitation posted last week. The services will involve “fire prevention, [personnel] training, and site familiarization activities necessary to prepare for emergency operations,” the notice says. […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Friday it has awarded the contract for management and operation of the Nevada National Security Site to Nevada Site Science Support and Technologies Corp. (NVS3T). NVS3T is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Integrated Technology, and will be supported in the contract by Fluor Federal Services and […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is giving contractors a few extra days to submit their proposals for two contracts. The due date for the liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina has been pushed back by two business days, to 3 p.m. EDT on Aug. 31, according […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Major Modernization Programs will extend for six months its contract with TechSource Inc. for technical support services, according to a notice posted Wednesday. TechSource received its current task order in August 2013 with an August 2016 expiration date and a ceiling of $3.58 million. The company’s work under […]

The Department of Energy on Wednesday said it has awarded $28 million in research funding to 14 advanced fossil fuel combustion systems projects. The recipients will spend $8.4 million on the projects, bring total spending to more than $36 million. “The new projects, which span 11 states, will accelerate the scale-up of coal-based advanced combustion […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Major Modernization Programs will extend for six months its contract with TechSource Inc. for technical support services, according to a notice posted Wednesday. TechSource received its current task order in August 2013 with an August 2016 expiration date and a ceiling of $3.58 million. The company’s work under […]

Bechtel National is more than halfway finished designing a facility crucial to starting a long-delayed cleanup of liquid radioactive waste in Washington state by 2022, but the company and the Energy Department are still haggling over the contract changes needed to actually build the facility, agency and industry representatives said Tuesday. That is according to […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is giving contractors a few extra days to submit their proposals for two contracts. The due date for the liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina has been pushed back by two business days, to 3 p.m. EDT on Aug. 31, according to […]

Nuclear Waste Partnership, prime contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, got a clean audit of its internal review of costs incurred in fiscal years 2013 and 2014 for operating the nation’s only permanent disposal facility for transuranic waste, the Energy Department Inspector General’s Office said in a report released Friday. Nuclear Waste […]

C2G International will assist the Energy Department’s Separations Process Research Unit field office in Niskayuna, N.Y., with contract-claims resolution and other legal matters under a legal support services contract worth up to $2.3 million, DOE announced Monday. The agency’s deal with the global contract resolution and litigation support specialist features a one-year base and two one-year […]

Leidos Holdings, of Reston, Va., is officially a partner in the main support services contractor at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site, having completed its nearly $5-billion stock-and-cash acquisition of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions unit, the companies announced Tuesday. Leidos announced on Aug. 8 that its shareholders had overwhelmingly approved the acquisition. The IS&GS business […]

Exelon has sealed a deal to buy Entergy’s James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant for $110 million, the utility announced Tuesday, about a week after the New York Public Service Commission approved Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) Clean Energy Standard. Cuomo’s plan is projected to pay upstate nuclear operators up to $1 billion in zero-emission energy credits […]

Carol Johnson will retire as president and CEO of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), the Energy Department confirmed Wednesday, ending the nuclear veteran’s two-year tenure at the head of DOE’s prime management and operations contractor for the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. “On July 21, 2016 SRNS notified the [Savannah River Site] Contracting Officer […]

Energy and Defense departments contractor BWX Technologies on Monday reported year-over-year growth both in revenue and earnings for the second quarter of 2016. Revenue rose by 13% from $357.1 million in second-quarter 2015 to $402.4 million in the latest reporting period, according to a company press release. Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) earnings per share […]

The Energy Department this week issued the final request for proposals for a small-business-only contract to provide technical support for a legally mandated environmental review DOE must conduct before finalizing a two-phase plan to decontaminate and demolish facilities at the West Valley Demonstration Project: a former spent-fuel reprocessing plant in upstate New York. The five-year […]

The Energy Department said Thursday it has pulled the trigger on the final two options of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions’ management and operations contract for the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., keeping the partnership on the job for almost two more years of work. The options just exercised are the last two on the deal and […]

GemTech Nuclear Security Solutions said last week it has won a new professional and technical services contract with Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), the management and operations contractor for the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. The company, a joint venture of small businesses GEM Technologies, CS […]