Contracts & Procurement

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/9/2015 The due date for bids for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s decommissioning general contract has been pushed back to January after a shake-up in potential bidders, RW Monitor learned this week. Southern California Edison, the site operator, had originally planned for a mid-October due date for bids, but […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) is questioning $526,562 in “questioned and unresolved” subcontract costs from fiscal 2013 with the company that manages and operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), according to a DOE Inspector General’s Office (IG) report released yesterday. Los Alamos National Security (LANS), which has operated LANL since 2006, conducted internal reviews […]

AREVA TN announced yesterday that it has signed a contract with Xcel Energy to provide dry fuel storage management services to the company’s Prairie Island and Monticello nuclear generating plants. The multi-year contract calls for the removal of nuclear fuel from the spent fuel pools and its eventual placement in dry cask storage casks on […]

Bechtel National, Inc., has awarded NV5 Holdings, Inc., an estimated $1.5 million contract to support nuclear cleanup at the Hanford Site, NV5 announced yesterday. The company provides professional and technical engineering and consulting services, and will, specifically, perform quality control field and laboratory testing and construction materials inspection at Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant, according to […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) is questioning $1.5 million in “unresolved” subcontract costs with the contractor that managed and operated the Y-12 National Security Complex from 2000 and 2014, according to a DOE Inspector General’s Office (IG) report released yesterday. Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12 (B&W Y-12) – a limited liability company made up […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management on Friday officially announced that it intends to compete Los Alamos National Laboratory’s post-fiscal 2016 nuclear cleanup contract, after Los Alamos National Security’s $309.8 million “bridge” contract expires between October 2016 and October 2017. DOE oversight for LANL cleanup work is shifting from the National Nuclear Security […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will extend by three months its contract with Synergy Solutions, Inc. (SSI) for personnel security program support services, according to a justification and approval document posted last week. The contract involves personnel security program support services to NNSA’s 49,000 contractor and federal employees with security clearances, including "personnel security access […]

Jeremy L. Dillon NS&D Monitor 10/2/2015 The National Nuclear Security Administration said this week it has entered into a new cooperative agreement to help finance General Atomics’ molybdenum-99 production technology. The agreement, including a $9.7 million cost-share contribution, marks the fifth such agreement the NNSA has entered into with companies seeking to produce the medical […]

WC Monitor 10/2/2015   DOE Awards Support Services Contract to Small Business Sigma Science Inc., of Los Alamos, N.M., has received a $4 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a five-year ordering period to provide technical support services to the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office, DOE announced on Wednesday. […]

Alissa Tabirian NS&D Monitor 10/2/2015 The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking industry comments on a draft request for proposal for design, integration, construction, communication, and engineering (DICCE2) services in support of the Office of Global Material Security’s Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence (NSDD) Program, according to a notice posted last Friday. DICCE2 services […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/2/2015 The National Nuclear Security Administration said this week it has entered into a new cooperative agreement to help finance General Atomics’ molybdenum-99 production technology. The agreement, including a $9.7 million cost-share contribution, marks the fifth such agreement the NNSA has entered into with companies seeking to produce the medical […]

Sigma Science Inc. of Los Alamos, N.M., has been awarded a $4 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a five-year ordering period to provide technical support services to the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office, DOE announced yesterday. Sigma, a certified small business, may receive firm-fixed-price and time-and-material task orders […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management on Wednesday announced six-month extensions of two contracts for cleanup of the Idaho Site.CH2M-WG Idaho (CWI) secured a $114 million extension for a contract that was due to lapse on Sept. 30 for the Idaho Cleanup Project, which involves remediation of contaminated facilities and radioactive waste produced […]

The Department of Energy on Tuesday said it had scheduled an industry day for its Savannah River Site liquid waste services contract for Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Augusta in Augusta, Ga. The session is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. and end around 3 p.m. It would be followed by […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking industry comments on a draft request for proposal for design, integration, construction, communication, and engineering (DICCE2) services in support of the Office of Global Material Security’s Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence (NSDD) Program, according to a notice posted last Friday.   DICCE2 services sought include the installation of […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 09/25/2015 The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management has awarded Los Alamos National Laboratory contractor Los Alamos National Security a one-year cost-plus-award fee “bridge” contract with a maximum value of $309.8 million and two six-month options for legacy cleanup activities at the New Mexico facility. Oversight of LANL legacy waste cleanup […]

Chris Schneidmiller WC Monitor 9/25/2015 The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) is striving to fit the right type of contract onto the right remediation projects, but that does not necessarily mean fixed-price agreements that are seen as a way of saving taxpayer money, senior DOE officiald said recently. “Fixed price is not […]

Brian Bradley WC Monitor 9/25/2015 The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management has awarded Los Alamos National Laboratory contractor Los Alamos National Security a one-year cost-plus-award fee “bridge” contract with a maximum value of $309.8 million and two six-month options for legacy cleanup activities at the New Mexico facility. Oversight of LANL legacy waste cleanup […]

Staff Reports WC Monitor 9/25/2015 The Department of Energy expects to have a new contractor operating the Hanford Site’s 222-S Laboratory by Nov. 21 after starting a 60-day transition period this week. The Government Accountability Office this week denied a protest against the May award of the $44.6 million contract to Wastren Advantage of Piketon, […]

The Department of Energy on Tuesday released a request for information/sources sought for companies interested in taking over the contract to dispose of liquid waste stored at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Savannah River Remediation’s contract for the work is scheduled to lapse on June 30, 2017. “The RFI/Sources Sought is seeking to […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 9/18/2015 The Centerra Group started working its protective forces subcontract at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on Wednesday, ending SOC’s 23-year run heading security at the Department of Energy facility. A LANL spokesman said by email that the contract’s base period expires Sept. 30, 2018, but it contains an option for […]

Alissa Tabirian NS&D Monitor 9/18/2015 The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking feedback on its contract evaluation criteria from potential bidders for management and operation of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), according to a special notice released this week. The announcement requests feedback from “prospective Offerors” by Sept. 21 on several draft documents […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) on Tuesday announced a 2.5-month extension of Swift & Staley’s (SSI) contract for infrastructure support services at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky. The contract had previously been set to expire on Sept. 15. "Today’s contract extension, valued at approximately $8.4 million, is intended to […]

Navy Strategic Systems Programs has awarded Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training a sole-source, undefinitized maximum-value $31.6 million contract action for Trident 2 Navigation Subsystem Strategic Systems Program Shipboard Integration Increment 8 efforts, the Defense Department announced yesterday. Work is expected to complete by May 15. Fiscal 2015 “other procurement” funds will finance the entire […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has scheduled its next business opportunity forum for 1-3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1., at the Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Ave. SW in Washington, D.C. “Topics will include a discussion on status of ongoing and upcoming procurement opportunities” with the DOE branch that oversees cleanup of legacy nuclear […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking feedback on its contract evaluation criteria from potential bidders for management and operation of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), according to a special notice released yesterday. The announcement requests feedback from “prospective Offerors” by Sept. 21 on several draft documents that include award evaluation factors, the […]

Los Alamos National Security has awarded Centerra Group its protective forces contract, a Los Alamos National Laboratory spokesman has confirmed. SOC, LLC, has provided security at the lab since 1992, and in 2010 beat G4S Government Solutions (then WSI), and several other companies to extend its contract another five years. SOC’s contract expires on Sept. […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 9/11/2015 SUMMERLIN, Nev.–The Army Corps of Engineers anticipates issuing the Request for Proposal for the cleanup of the Shallow Land Disposal Area (SLDA) site in Armstrong County, Pa. sometime in early 2016, National FUSRAP Program Manager Nicki Fatherly said this week at the 2015 RadWaste Summit.  The Corps had previously […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 09/11/2015 In the past year, the Energy Department’s Office of Science and Stanford University have completed the research phases of two contrasting pilot programs aimed at revamping the national laboratory contracting structure, and two sites will soon conduct real-life tests of the final concepts, DOE officials said this week. SLAC National […]

Brian Bradley WC Monitor 9/11/2015 In the past year, the Energy Department’s Office of Science and Stanford University have completed the research phases of two contrasting pilot programs aimed at revamping the national laboratory contracting structure, and two sites will soon conduct real-life tests of the final concepts, DOE officials said this week. SLAC National […]