Contracts & Procurement

Leidos on Thursday said it expects to close the transaction for Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems and Global Solutions (IS&GS) business on Aug. 16 and plans to pay its shareholders of record a special cash dividend. The company said the dividend would be $13.64 per share, which will amount to about a $1 billion payment, and is […]

Fluor Corp. missed its mark for second-quarter earnings Thursday, posting a profit of $102 million, or 72 cents a share, down almost 30 percent from a year ago on a pair of underperforming projects unrelated to the company’s nuclear decommissioning work for the Energy Department. Revenue in the three months ended June 30 was $4.9 […]

Several major defense contractors have confirmed their intention to bid on the requests for proposals the U.S. Air Force released on July 29 for technology maturation and risk reduction operations for the Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) and Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) missile programs, part of the United States’ plan to modernize each leg of the nuclear […]

National Security Technologies (NSTec) is seeking information on the design and suppliers of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). NSTec, the management and operations contractor at the Nevada National Security Site, is particularly interested in heavy-lift fixed-winged vertical operating drone platforms, according to a request for information posted Monday. The contractor is seeking drone designs that meet technical […]

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 contract […]

London-based engineering and project management provider Amec Foster Wheeler on Wednesday said it had filled the new position of chief information officer with a longtime technology and energy industry manager. Rod Carr started on the job on Tuesday, according to a company press release. He will work in London and report to CEO Jonathan Lewis […]

Nuclear projects were again a bright spot in an otherwise disappointing quarter for Dallas-based engineering services company CH2M, which on Monday announced a net loss of $62 million, or $2.53 cents a share, as delays with big capital projects translated to big losses, and an ongoing slump in the company’s oil and gas business continued. The […]

GemTech Nuclear Security Solutions 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 announced last week. The company, a joint venture of small businesses GEM Technologies, […]

Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I) on Wednesday reported $123.8 million in net income for the second quarter of 2016, down from $169.5 million during the same quarter last year. This corresponds to income of $1.17 per diluted share in the latest quarter, falling from $1.55 in the second quarter of 2015. Revenue landed at $2.7 billion […]

Northrop Grumman on Wednesday reported $6 billion in sales in the second quarter of 2016, a 2 percent year-over-year increase, along with $517 million in net earnings, down from $531 million in the same period of 2015. The company also reported a 2 percent decline in operating income from the second quarter of 2015 to that of 2016. […]

Incumbent Lockheed Martin said Monday it has teamed with the Purdue, New Mexico State (NMSU), and New Mexico Tech (NMT) universities to bid on the Sandia National Laboratories management and operations contract. The announcement clarifies the cooperative arrangement that was still unclear when Lockheed announced early last month its intent to bid to retain the contract. […]

Incumbent Lockheed Martin said Monday it has teamed with the Purdue, New Mexico State, and New Mexico Tech universities to bid on the Sandia National Laboratories management and operations contract. The announcement clarifies the cooperative arrangement that was still unclear when Lockheed announced early last month its intent to bid to retain the contract. The Sandia […]

Honeywell said Friday its second-quarter 2016 sales totaled $10 billion, a 2 percent increase from the same quarter last year.  Earnings per share also increased by 10 percent year over year, leading the company to raise its EPS guidance for 2016 by 8-10 percent, to $6.60-$6.70. Honeywell CEO Dave Cote noted during the company’s earnings […]

URS CH2M Oak Ridge landed an award of nearly $3.6 million for the six months ended March 31, good for 94 percent of the total available to the prime cleanup contractor for the Energy Department’s former uranium enrichment facilities near Oak Ridge, Tenn., according to the company’s latest award fee determination scorecard from DOE. In […]

Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) is seeking expressions of interest from entities that can convert enriched lithium chloride and enriched lithium hydride to lithium metal for the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee, according to a notice posted last week. Lithium is used for the manufacture of nuclear weapons components; the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. on Tuesday announced net sales of $12.9 billion and net earnings of $1 billion for the second quarter of 2016. Net sales increased from $11.6 billion in the same quarter of last year, while net earnings rose from $929 million in that same time period. Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sandia Corp. is the […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. on Tuesday announced net sales of $12.9 billion and net earnings of $1 billion for the second quarter of 2016. Net sales increased from $11.6 billion in the same quarter of last year, while net earnings rose from $929 million in that same time period. Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sandia Corp. is the […]

With the details of the work sought essentially unchanged from the draft solicitation issued in May, the Energy Department on Thursday released a final solicitation for a five-year contract to transport transuranic waste over the road to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M. The final request for proposals for a WIPP Transportation Services contract […]

Responses to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) request for proposals for the Sandia National Laboratories management and operations contract were due Wednesday. The agency did not offer information about the proposals – particularly the names of the bidding companies and the number of bids received – but said it expects to make a selection by the […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking potential providers capable of offering technical support on data for infrastructure cost and construction and maintenance estimates, according to a sources sought notice posted last week. The notice said NNSA is interested in businesses with experience in providing building construction and sustainment cost data; developing federal infrastructure […]

Responses to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) request for proposals for the Sandia National Laboratories management and operations contract were due Wednesday. The agency did not offer information about the proposals – particularly the names of the bidding companies and the number of bids received – but said it expects to make a selection by the […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking potential providers capable of offering technical support on data for infrastructure cost and construction and maintenance estimates, according to a sources sought notice posted last week. The notice said NNSA is interested in businesses with experience in providing building construction and sustainment cost data; developing federal infrastructure […]

The U.S. Navy plans to award the design contract for the Ohio replacement submarine to prime contractor General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat by October, a service official said July 8. The Navy received Electric Boat’s proposal for the new ballistic missile submarine in May, and “we are in a very intensive review cycle right now, […]

The Savannah River Site’s security contractor, Centerra-SRS, earned $2.81 million out of a possible $2.96 million award fee for the first half of fiscal 2016. The money equates to a 95 percent performance during the time frame spanning from October 2015 through March 2016. The Department of Energy awards contractors based on how well they perform […]

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) is seeking a dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing the contractor and one of its parent companies of overcharging the government more than $5 million in “unallowable costs.” In papers filed on May 20, SRNS said the Department of Justice misused the Federal Claims Act in filing its lawsuit, and […]

The final request for proposals for a contract to haul radio-contaminated material and equipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., will be released this month, no sooner than Sunday, the Energy Department said. The new WIPP Transportation Services contract will be a five-year, fixed-price, indefinite-quantity, indefinite-delivery deal. The pact will replace a pair […]

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) is seeking a dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing the contractor and one of its parent companies of overcharging the government more than $5 million in “unallowable costs.” In papers filed on May 20, SRNS said the Department of Justice misused the Federal Claims Act in filing its lawsuit, and […]

The Sandia National Laboratories is seeking a commercial partner for the development of a market-ready physical security analysis software package, according to a special notice posted last week. The collaboration, which would be based on Sandia’s security analysis methodologies, would yield commercial software with applications that involve nuclear power plant security, material control and accounting, […]

The Department of Energy has awarded a grant of up to $3 million to start a five-year radiochemistry training program for graduate students at Washington State University. The campus in Pullman is about 125 miles east of the Hanford Site. The grant comes from DOE offices of Environmental Management and Nuclear Energy funds, with both […]

NuVision Engineering of Pittsburgh, a supplier for San Francisco-based Bechtel National on the multibillion-dollar Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) facility under construction at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site, is suing the prime in federal court for almost $2 million in costs the smaller company alleges it incurred because of delays building the enormous facility. The equipment at […]