Contracts & Procurement

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking small businesses that could offer psychological assessment services to the agency’s Office of Personnel and Facility Clearances and Classification, according to a sources sought notice issued last week. The notice says the NNSA’s Albuquerque Complex is conducting market research for an “anticipated contract” worth $11 million over […]

The Department of Energy on Monday said it had awarded a contract worth up to $9.4 million for technical, engineering, and programmatic support for the Office of Environmental Management headquarters in Washington, D.C., and other EM locations.   Link Technologies of Germantown, Md., offered the sole response to the solicitation for the contract that features […]

Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), managing contractor of the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee, is seeking expressions of interest for "architecture-engineering services" for an emergency operations center at the site, according to a sources sought solicitation postes by the Department of Energy (DOE) last week. The DOE said the new facility will be a "design-bid-build project" […]

Staff Reports NS&D Monitor 12/4/2015 The Los Alamos National Laboratory and its newly selected protective force contractor, the Centerra Group, have completed a full transfer of security responsibilities from departing contractor SOC. The final change took place Tuesday despite a pending protest by SOC that disputed the award, a factor that went unmentioned in announcements […]

Staff report RW Monitor 12/4/2015 Southern California Edison (SCE) said this week it expects three bids in January from contractors for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s estimated $4.4 billion decommissioning general contract. SCE spokeswoman Maureen Brown said the company anticipates bids from the following groups: Bechtel and Westinghouse; Team Holtec, a newly established, wholly […]

Staff Reports NS&D Monitor 12/4/2015 Hourly workers at the Y-12 National Security Complex approved a new five-year collective bargaining agreement on Thursday, concluding four weeks of negotiations on a positive note for the workforce and the government’s managing contractor for the nuclear weapons facility, Consolidated Nuclear Security. The ratified agreement will provide about 1,100 union […]

Brian Bradley WC Monitor 12/4/2015 The Department of Energy in fiscal 2015 “disallowed” costs of approximately $3.1 million to Washington Savannah River Co. (WSRC), the former Savannah River Site (SRS) contractor and a Westinghouse subsidiary, after the DOE inspector general found WSRC employees had inappropriately received severance payments under a SRS workforce restructuring, the IG […]

WC Monitor 12/4/2015   Swift & Staley Starts Paducah Infrastructure Contract Swift & Staley on Tuesday began its three-year, $138.8 million contract to provide infrastructure support at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management in June announced the award of the contract, which has an additional 22-month option period and […]

Southern California Edison (SCE) said this week it expects three bids in January from contractors for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s estimated $4.4 billion decommissioning general contract.   SCE spokeswoman Maureen Brown said the company anticipates bids from the following companies: Bechtel and Westinghouse; Team Holtec, a newly established, wholly owned subsidiary of Holtec […]

Unionized workers at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant will vote Thursday on whether to approve a new five-year collective bargaining agreement with site manager Consolidated Nuclear Security.   Atomic Trades and Labor Council President Steve Jones confirmed Tuesday that a tentative agreement had been reached after a month of negotiations with CNS. But he declined […]

The Department of Energy in fiscal 2015 “disallowed” costs of approximately $3.1 million to Washington Savannah River Co. (WSRC), the former Savannah River Site (SRS) contractor and a Westinghouse subsidiary, after the DOE inspector general had found that WSRC employees had inappropriately received severance payments under a SRS workforce restructuring, the IG said Tuesday in […]

The Energy Department’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center on Tuesday released a sources sought and request for information for the potential upcoming procurement for Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management Technical Support Services. EM hopes to get input from small businesses, and intends to assess set-aside possibilities, according to an EMCBC press release. Contract type, […]

United Steel Workers and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant operator Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) have failed to negotiate a labor agreement, but on Thursday agreed to extend their contract through Dec. 18. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reported on Monday that the 250 unionized employees working for the WIPP contractor could strike by the end of 2015 if […]

Dounreay site license company Dounreay Site Restoration Limited has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a 12-month contract for the design, safety basis, and environmental assessment of a new higher activity store to hold waste arising from decommissioning activities at the Scotland nuclear site, Amec Foster Wheeler announced yesterday. “The decommissioning of the Dounreay site is an […]

Between at least 2009 and 2014, the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management and Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) contractor Bechtel National, Inc., “had not always” properly executed procurement and material management activities at DOE’s Office of River Protection (ORP), according to a Nov. 16-completed DOE inspector general report released yesterday.   Among […]

Karl Herchenroeder and Brian Bradley RW Monitor 11/20/2015 EnergySolutions announced Thursday that it had reached a tentative agreement to purchase competitor Waste Control Specialists for $270 million. The announcement came just days after the Utah-based nuclear services giant agreed to sell off its Hanford Site tank farm operation and other assets to WS Atkins for […]

NS&D Monitor 11/20/2015 IN THE NNSA The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) held yesterday a pre-proposal conference for the Nevada National Security Site’s (NNSS) management and operating contract competition. The conference for prospective contract bidders took place at the Embassy Suites Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev., and followed the NNSA’s Nov. 6 request for […]

Karl Herchenroeder and Brian Bradley WC Monitor 11/20/2015 EnergySolutions announced Thursday that it had reached a tentative agreement to purchase competitor Waste Control Specialists for $270 million. The announcement came just days after the Utah-based nuclear services giant agreed to sell off its Hanford Site tank farm operation and other assets to WS Atkins for […]

United Kingdom-based Atkins yesterday announced it signed an agreement to acquire EnergySolutions’ Projects, Products and Technology segment for $318 million. PP&T’s portfolio includes environmental remediation projects, and Atkins said it sought out the deal, in part, because it accelerates Atkins’ nuclear strategy and because EnergySolutions has a complementary customer base and capabilities, a Nov. 17 […]

Mission Support Alliance and the Hanford Guard Union have agreed to a 60-day contract extension for the union contract. The extension will extend talks past the holiday season, taking some of the pressure off those at the bargaining table. The guard’s contract was set to expire at the end of October and already was extended […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has scheduled a pre-proposal conference for the Nevada National Security Site’s (NNSS) management and operating contract competition. The conference for prospective contract bidders will be held Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Embassy Suites Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev., and follows the NNSA’s Nov. 6 request for proposals for […]

November 2015        

November 2015      

Portage Receives Tech Support Contract WC Monitor 11/13/2015 The Energy Department said Thursday it has awarded incumbent Portage Inc., of Idaho Falls, a $42.4 million contract to provide technical support services to DOE’s Carlsbad Field Office in all program areas. The contract comprises a three-year base period and a two-year option period. The contract includes […]

WC Monitor 11/13/2015   IN EM The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management will host its next quarterly forum to discuss business opportunities in the legacy nuclear cleanup arena from 10 a.m. to noon on Dec. 15 at DOE headquarters (Forrestal Building) in Washington, D.C. “Organized by EM’s Office of Acquisition and Project Management, the […]

Brian Bradley WC Monitor 11/6/2015 URS | CH2M Hill Oak Ridge (UCOR) has reported that 76 percent, or $331 million, of its subcontracted work at East Tennessee Technology Park was awarded to small businesses from August 2011 to August 2014, surpassing UCOR’s own 65-percent goal stated in its small business subcontracting plan, according to an […]

Alissa Tabirian NS&D Monitor 11/6/2015 Boeing and Lockheed Martin are protesting the Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRSB) contract the Defense Department awarded last week to Northrop Grumman. The selection process for the contract, worth an estimated $80 billion, “was fundamentally flawed,” Boeing said Friday in an announcement. “The cost evaluation performed by the government did not […]

Alissa Tabirian NS&D Monitor 11/6/2015 The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) yesterday released its request for proposals for the follow-on contract for management and operation of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). The contract will feature a five-year base period and five-year option period and is expected to be worth $500 million-$600 million per year. […]

URS | CH2M Hill Oak Ridge (UCOR) has reported that 76 percent, or $331 million, of its subcontracted work at East Tennessee Technology Park was awarded to small businesses from August 2011 to August 2014, surpassing UCOR’s own 65-percent goal stated in its small business subcontracting plan, according to an Energy Department inspector general’s report […]

Brian Bradley WC Monitor 10/30/2015 AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. – The Los Alamos National Laboratory legacy cleanup contract is expected to be awarded next year, and will most likely yield the winning prime contractor or prime team approximately $150 million-$180 million annually, Jack Surash, deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management for the Energy Department’s […]