Contracts & Procurement

Power company Entergy on Tuesday reported $230 million in consolidated earnings for the first quarter of 2016, down about 23 percent from $298.1 million over the same period in 2015. In a press release Tuesday, the company, which owns the Vermont Yankee, Pilgrim, and James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power plants, in addition to other assets, […]

Swedish nuclear waste company Studsvik announced Monday a joint venture with Japan’s Kobe Steel, in which the companies will deliver waste management design, engineering, and implementation services for Japanese nuclear sites. The announcement says the venture will combine Studsvik’s design and engineering experience, particularly its THOR radioactive waste treatment technology, with Kobe’s industrial and delivery capabilities […]

Valerie Insinna Defense Daily The Air Force will issue a request for proposals (RFP) in a matter of weeks for its next-generation ICBM, known as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), the Pentagon’s acquisition chief said Wednesday. “We are on track,” Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told lawmakers during a […]

Honeywell’s first-quarter 2016 sales totaled $9.5 billion, while its year-over-year earnings per share rose by 9 percent, the company announced Friday. Core organic sales grew 1 percent, and the company raised its earnings per share guidance for the year by 7-10 percent, to $6.55-$6.70. A Honeywell subsidiary, Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, is the managing […]

Battelle Memorial Institute, the Department of Energy contractor that recently abandoned a planned deep borehole nuclear waste storage field test in North Dakota, said Thursday that it is now considering a site in Spink County, S.D. The location would enable the company to explore nuclear waste storage methods in crystalline granite rock, according to a […]

EnergySolutions said Wednesday it has reached an agreement with the Japan Atomic Power Co. (JAPC) under which the two companies will collaborate on decommissioning of light-water nuclear power facilities in Japan. The company declined to disclose terms of the deal, including the length of contract and monetary amount. EnergySolutions will share its decommissioning and decontamination […]

Battelle Memorial Institute, the Department of Energy contractor that recently abandoned a planned deep borehole nuclear waste storage field test in North Dakota, said Thursday that it is now considering a site in Spink County, S.D. The location would enable the company to explore nuclear waste storage methods in crystalline granite rock, according to a press […]

The Energy Department announced Thursday it has awarded a five-year, $153.8 million follow-on task order to Portage Inc. to relocate waste from the agency’s Moab Site in Moab, Utah, to a disposal facility near Crescent Junction, Utah. Under the task order, issued under DOE’s Office of Environmental Management nationwide indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, multiple award contract, […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) next week will offer a site tour of the Sandia National Laboratories site in Albuquerque, N.M., for potential bidders for the lab’s follow-on management and operations contract competition. The April 27 site tour may be followed by one-on-one meetings on April 28 or 29 to give potential bidders the […]

The Energy Department and its contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico could do more to ensure their new safety procedures prevent a repeat of a 2014 radiation release blamed on an improperly packaged drum of contaminated waste, according to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). “The Department of Energy […]

National Security Technologies (NSTec), the managing and operating contractor for the Nevada National Security Site, has resolved all questioned costs identified in a previous internal cost allowability audit, according to a Department of Energy Office of Inspector General report released last week. NSTec’s audit of its costs from fiscal 2012-2014 identified $292,650 in questioned costs, all […]

According to occurrence reports filed by Y-12 National Security Complex contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security in the last couple years, there have been more than 50 “events” in which radioactive debris has been uncovered during site-preparation activities for the multibillion-dollar Uranium Processing Facility. The radioactive discoveries are considered to be legacies of earlier operations at the […]

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) on Monday officially exited a reduced work phase, or deliberate operations, that was implemented after the company wrapped up an operational safety pause last fall. Now, the Savannah River Site management and operations contractor is fully in enhanced operations. Work in enhanced operations is closer to normal operations, but contingencies […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration and its Y-12 site contractor, Consolidated Nuclear Security, are moving forward with infrastructure improvements at two key facilities at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., facility. This is apparently one of the top priorities at Y-12, needed to support efforts to ensure the scaled-back plans for the Uranium Processing Facility keep the […]

Nuclear Waste Partnership, prime contractor for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) disposal facility near Carlsbad, N.M., said Thursday it earned about $2.5 million in fees in fiscal 2015, good for almost 75 percent of the possible award. Todd Shrader, head of DOE’s Carlsbad Field Office, said in a letter the company […]

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) on Monday officially exited a reduced work phase, or deliberate operations, that was implemented after the company wrapped up an operational safety pause last fall. Now, the Savannah River Site management and operations contractor is fully in enhanced operations. Work in enhanced operations is closer to normal operations, but contingencies […]

Former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) on Monday laid into a report commissioned by the Department of Energy’s lead MOX fuel facility contractor that questioned the suitability of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant as a storage site for downblended plutonium. In a commentary sent to media outlets, Domenici charged that CB&I AREVA MOX Services is using […]

Bechtel National of San Francisco earned $8.3 million in award fees from the Energy Department for its work last year on the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash. — two-thirds of the total possible award, according to a document DOE’s Office of River Protection (ORP) published Monday. Most of the money […]

British design and engineering consultant Atkins has acquired EnergySolutions’ projects, products, and technology (PP&T) segment for $318 million, the company announced Monday after securing regulatory authorization in North America. In a press a release, Atkins said the acquisition will improve its access to Tier 1 government contracts for management and decommissioning of nuclear sites in […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved 150 staff recommendations for reducing the agency’s expenses and staffing workloads, which will reportedly result in about $40 million in savings over the next year. The reductions ranged in savings from $1 million to $1.3 million and encompassed cost reductions in everything from information technology service contracts to lowering […]

The fiscal 2017 Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill includes language allowing the Department of Energy to contract Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed private facilities to store nuclear waste. The Senate Appropriations energy and water subcommittee on Wednesday signed off on the $37.5 billion bill that primarily would fund the Department of Energy for the budget year beginning Oct. […]

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) on Monday officially exited a reduced work phase, or deliberate operations, that was implemented after the company wrapped up an operational safety pause last fall. Now, the Savannah River Site management and operations contractor is fully in enhanced operations. Work in enhanced operations is closer to normal operations, but contingencies […]

Hanford Site support services contractor Mission Support Alliance has earned almost $18.8 million in fees for fiscal 2015, but will not be paid until a dispute over past payments is resolved. The award fee earned is 89 percent of the $21 million available, according to a Department of Energy scorecard released this week. Mission Support […]

Bechtel National of San Francisco earned $8.3 million in award fees from the Energy Department for its work last year on the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash. — two-thirds of the total possible award, according to a document DOE’s Office of River Protection (ORP) published Monday. Most of the money […]

British design and engineering consultant Atkins has acquired EnergySolutions’ projects, products, and technology (PP&T) segment for $318 million, the company announced Monday after securing regulatory authorization in North America. In a press a release, Atkins said the acquisition will improve its access to Tier 1 government contracts for management and decommissioning of nuclear sites in North America; improve opportunities for […]

Former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) on Monday laid into a report commissioned by the Department of Energy’s lead MOX fuel facility contractor that questioned the suitability of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant as a storage site for downblended plutonium. In a commentary sent to media outlets, Domenici charged that CB&I AREVA MOX Services is using “junk science” […]

John Ricciardelli has been named the new president of Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, the managing and operating contractor for the National Security Campus in Kansas City, Mo., the company announced last week. Ricciardelli, a 32-year aerospace industry veteran, was recently the program director for Honeywell Aerospace’s Airbus A350 XWB Program. Former FM&T president Chris Gentile retired from […]

One Lockheed Martin affiliate reaped more than $60 million in unallowable profits over four years under a dubiously permissible information technology subcontract with another Lockheed affiliate at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, the DOE Inspector General’s Office said in an audit report released Wednesday. The internal DOE watchdog also warned the […]

Though none would commit outright to making a run at the work, most of the major partners on the Energy Department’s main liquid-waste cleanup contract at the Savannah River Site signaled interest in bidding on billions of dollars’ worth of follow-on work at the Aiken, S.C. facility. About a week after DOE released a draft request […]

Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), the contractor that manages and operates the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is seeking expressions of interest for the replacement of body armor used at the site, according to a recent solicitation posted. Vendors must demonstrate good past performance within the last seven years on similar supply contracts […]