Contracts & Procurement

Nuclear Watch New Mexico on Thursday said it had filed another Freedom of Information Act request aimed at getting the National Nuclear Security Administration to release fiscal 2015 performance evaluation reports (PERs) for the Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories. As the nuclear weapons agency has not responded to a FOIA request on Dec. 22, […]

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 Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, the DOE Inspector General’s Office said in an audit report released Wednesday. The IG said Lockheed-led Mission Support Alliance, prime support-services […]

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 […]

Technical Resources Group, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, has won a contract worth up to $2.6 million over three years, including options, to help federal, state, tribal, and local authorities prepare for possible future transportation incidents or accidents involving Department of Energy shipments of radiological material, DOE said Thursday. The company’s support services contract, part of the […]

Almost six months after it declared the deal all but done, Centrus Energy Corp. said Monday it has signed a contract to continue some work on new U.S.-designed uranium enrichment technology at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Centrus’ new centrifuge technology advancement subcontract with Oak Ridge prime contractor UT-Battelle is worth $32.3 million […]

An excavation contractor working on site preparations for the Uranium Processing Facility in late January accidentally demolished a storm drain line on the west side of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee, resulting in some activities at the construction site being put on hold for a month or more, according to a Defense Nuclear […]

Consolidated Nuclear Security, the managing contractor at the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plant, is scrambling to get its funding accounts back in order after a series of events created what has been described as an “imbalance.” Even though CNS is reportedly within its budget and meeting production goals for the National Nuclear Security Administration, […]

Valerie Insinna Defense Daily 4/1/2016 The Navy has named General Dynamics Electric Boat the prime contractor for the Ohio replacement submarine, while Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding will take a secondary role in designing and constructing the new boomers, according to a new strategy released this week. Design and construction work will be split 80-20 between Electric Boat and […]

About 60 workers, over the past two months, have been laid off at the incomplete Savannah River Site Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) in order to keep construction on track, a spokesperson for plant contractor CB&I AREVA MOX Services said Thursday. The layoffs are a result of severe restrictions on MOX project dollars, mainly because […]

Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth will continue cleaning up the former Portsmouth uranium enrichment facility for at least two-and-a-half more years, under a contract modification with the Energy Department that took effect this week. It is simultaneously a vote of confidence and a bit of tough talking to the conglomerate from the Energy Department, which approved a five-year […]

The Department of Energy has yet to post a 2015 award fee scorecard for its prime contractor on the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) now under construction by Bechtel National at the Hanford Site, a former plutonium production facility near Richland, Wash. Award fee determination scorecards are public-facing appraisals of a contractor’s performance at a DOE […]

The Energy Department on Thursday released a draft solicitation for liquid waste cleanup work at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. that could be worth up to $6 billion over 10 years, including options. The deal will follow-up an eight-year, $4.1 billion deal held by incumbent Savannah River Remediation, a conglomerate led by AECOM […]

An excavation contractor working on site preparations for the Uranium Processing Facility in late January accidentally demolished a storm drain line on the west side of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee, resulting in some activities at the construction site being put on hold for a month or more, according to a Defense Nuclear […]

Consolidated Nuclear Security, the managing contractor at the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plant, is scrambling to get its funding accounts back in order after a series of events created what has been described as an “imbalance.” Even though CNS is reportedly within its budget and meeting production goals for the National Nuclear Security Administration, […]

The Energy Department announced Tuesday that Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth will stay on the job decontaminating and decommissioning the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant for another two-and-a-half years, under a $750 million contract option. Together with the roughly $1.6 billion, five-year base contract awarded in 2011, the Portsmouth demolition work is now worth up to $$2.35 billion to […]

Almost six months after it declared the deal all but done, Centrus Energy Corp. said Monday it has signed a contract to continue some work on new U.S.-designed uranium enrichment technology at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Centrus’ new centrifuge technology advancement subcontract with Oak Ridge prime contractor UT-Battelle is worth $32.3 million […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking temporary support staff services for its Office of Human Capital Management, according to a solicitation posted Friday. Tasks will involve “program support for the Director of Human Resources; consulting assistance and program support for classification and staffing services; benefits; employee relations and performance management,” according to the […]

The United States is suing the Savannah River Site’s management and operations contractor, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), and Fluor Federal Services, a parent company to the contractor, for allegedly committing fraud by claiming more than $5 million in “unallowable costs” dating to 2008 when SRNS took over the contract. The U.S. is listed as […]

A story in the March 11 issue of Weapons Complex Monitor [“Draft Savannah River Site Solicitation Leads EM Procurement Blitz”] should have said DOE has so far started preparing a solicitation for only one of the three major contracts managed by the Hanford Site’s Office of River Protection: the tank operations contract now held by Washington River […]

The prime contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., this week played down concerns raised by an internal Energy Department watchdog regarding the transuranic waste storage site’s interim ventilation system (IVS) — a crucial upgrade required to resume waste storage at the underground facility. On March 16, DOE’s Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA) […]

Uranium enrichment company Centrus Energy, which is closing down its work on the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) in Piketon, Ohio, said Tuesday it still does not have a contract for the portion of that program that was supposed to continue through September at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Centrus thought it would have that work locked […]

A system used for liquid waste cleanup at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site (SRS) has sprung a leak and, if it cannot be repaired, will take years to replace, according to weekly site reports from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). SRS prime liquid cleanup contractor Savannah River Remediation discovered the leak in […]

Waste Control Specialists continues to advocate for legislation it hopes will pave the way for interim storage of U.S. nuclear waste, with CEO Rod Baltzer stating in a blog post this week, “Let’s just do it.” Last week, Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) introduced legislation that would allow the Department of Energy to contract with private […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking feedback on draft solicitation documents from potential bidders for the Sandia National Laboratories’ (SNL) management and operations contract, according to a special notice posted Monday. The NNSA is particularly interested in input from small businesses and small business sub-categories, including woman-owned and veteran-owned firms, that may be […]

The United States is suing the Savannah River Site’s management and operations contractor, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), and Fluor Federal Services, a parent company to the contractor, for allegedly committing fraud by claiming more than $5 million in “unallowable costs” dating to 2008 when SRNS took over the contract. The U.S. is listed as […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is seeking feedback on draft solicitation documents from potential bidders for the Sandia National Laboratories’ (SNL) management and operations contract, according to a special notice posted Monday. The NNSA is particularly interested in input from small businesses and small business sub-categories, including woman-owned and veteran-owned firms, that may be able […]

Uranium enrichment company Centrus Energy, which is in the middle of closing down its work on the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) in Piketon, Ohio, said late Tuesday the transfer of some of that work to Oak Ridge National Laboratory did not happen as expected in 2015. The news was tucked into a press release about the […]

The United States is suing the Savannah River Site’s management and operations contractor, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), and Fluor Federal Services, a parent company to the contractor, for allegedly committing fraud by claiming more than $5 million in “unallowable costs” dating to 2008 when SRNS took over the contract. The U.S. is listed as […]

It’s not clear when, or if, the National Nuclear Security Administration intends to release the fiscal 2015 performance evaluation reports for its contractors. Posting of the reports is already overdue and the NNSA has given mixed signals about its plans. Outside of targeted audits and investigations by the Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General […]

In The Industry Wastren-EnergX Mission Support netted a $1.4 million award fee from the Energy Department in 2015 for supporting ongoing uranium enrichment cleanup at DOE’s Portsmouth Site near Piketon, Ohio, the company said March 17. Wastren-EnergX Mission Support’s latest award amounts to 98 percent of the available award for 2015 on the five-year, $42 […]