Contracts & Procurement

A final Request for Proposals for the new contract to manage the Department of Energy’s two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plants is expected to be released within the next 15 to 45 days, DOE said in a notice issued yesterday. DOE also said that it expects to award the new contract “in or about” […]

Noting the “unprecedented” amount of Department of Energy procurements scheduled for the next few years, a recent report by the Energy Communities Alliance is urging a discussion with DOE on potential changes to its contracting policies and processes. The report notes that in addition to the Idaho core contract competition, at least 17 major DOE […]

Jeremy L. Dillon WC Monitor 6/5/2015 The Department of Energy this week issued seven Basic Ordering Agreements for the treatment of Low-Level Waste and Mixed Low-Level Waste. Included among the seven BOAs are: Babcock Services, Environmental Dimensions, EnergySolutions, Omega Consultants, Perma-Fix Environmental Services, UniTech Services Group, and Waste Control Specialists. Each BOA covers a five […]

Jeremy L. Dillon WC Monitor 6/5/2015 Kurion and AREVA announced this week a joint partnership to provide decommissioning and remediation services for the Department of Energy’s cleanup complex. The companies said that the alliance’s initial emphasis centers on cleanup and closure work at the Hanford site in Washington state, but they indicated that it could […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 6/5/2015 As the Department of Energy continues to evaluate bids for the follow-on contract to operate Oak Ridge’s Transuranic Waste Processing Center, DOE this week again extended by six months the current contract held by incumbent Wastren Advantage. The contractor received its first extension in January that ran through mid-July, and […]

Will Long-Running Procurement Finally Come to an End? Mike Nartker WC Monitor 6/5/2015 In a move that could bring the Department of Energy’s multi-year search for a new support contractor for the Office of Legacy Management to an end, the Government Accountability Office late last week denied two protests filed against DOE’s most recent decision […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 6/5/2015 Kurion and AREVA announced this week a joint partnership to provide decommissioning and remediation services for the Department of Energy’s cleanup complex. The companies said that the alliance’s initial emphasis centers on cleanup and closure work at the Hanford site in Washington state, but they indicated that it could […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 6/5/2015 The Department of Energy this week issued seven Basic Ordering Agreements for the treatment of Low-Level Waste and Mixed Low-Level Waste. Included among the seven BOAs are: Babcock Services, Environmental Dimensions, EnergySolutions, Omega Consultants, Perma-Fix Environmental Services, UniTech Services Group, and Waste Control Specialists. Each BOA covers a five […]

The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Hill AFB has awarded Boeing a sole-source $466.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for repairing Minuteman 3 guidance sets, the Defense Department announced yesterday. Work is expected to complete by June 2, 2021, and will be performed in Newark, Ohio. At the time of the award, $22.7 million in Fiscal […]

The Department of Energy yesterday issued a set of updated sections for the draft Request for Proposals for the new contract to manage DOE’s two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plants. Among the changes made in the new sections (B, H, L and M) is DOE making the contract run for a full five years, […]

Kurion and AREVA announced yesterday a joint partnership to provide decommissioning and remediation services that focus on serving the Department of Energy cleanup complex. The companies said that the initial emphasis of the alliance will center on cleanup and closure work at the Hanford site in Washington, but they indicated that it could expand to […]

The Government Accountability Office late last week denied the two protests filed over Navarro Research and Engineering’s win of the new support services contract for the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management. Portage and a team of Wastren Advantage-Stoller had each filed challenges over DOE’s decision in late January to name Navarro the winner […]

The U.K.’s Sellafield Limited last week awarded a four-year £20 million ($30.5 million) contract to Tata Steel to refurbish waste containers and doors for the transfer of waste from legacy plants to new storage facilities. The material will allow the decommissioning of the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo. “This announcement demonstrates our commitment to ensuring value […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 5/29/2015 Wastren Advantage won late this week the Department of Energy’s new $44.6 million contract for operation of Hanford’s 222-S Laboratory. The small business set-aside contract received four bids, and includes a two-year base period and three one-year option periods that would cover an estimated 15,000 to 25,000 laboratory analyses each […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 5/29/2015 Senate authorizers are looking to require the Department of Energy to complete emergency preparedness assessments as part of award fee evaluations for the Department’s set of M&O contractors. The Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, which was recently reported out of committee, would require DOE […]

Company Alleges FE&C Was Unable to Perform Work Mike Nartker WC Monitor 5/29/2015 Hanford cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. (CHPRC) had a strong response this week to a subcontractor that has filed a lawsuit seeking damages for work on the K West Basin Annex construction project, accusing Federal Engineers and Constructors (FE&C) of […]

Staff Reports WC Monitor 5/29/2015 Washington Closure Hanford has received a one-year extension to its contract for the River Corridor Cleanup project at Hanford, stretching it through September 2016, the Department of Energy announced this week. The final year of the extended contract would focus mostly on two challenging projects, cleanup of the trenches at […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 5/29/2015 Senate authorizers are looking to require the Department of Energy to complete emergency preparedness assessments as part of award fee evaluations for the Department’s set of M&O contractors. The Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, which was recently reported out of committee, would require DOE […]

Senate authorizers are looking to require the Department of Energy to complete emergency preparedness assessments as part of award fee evaluations for DOE M&O contractors, according to language in the Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act that recently cleared the full committee. The provision “would require the Secretary of Energy […]

AREVA Wins Subcontract to Help Address Leaking ORNL Reactor Pool WC Monitor 5/22/2015 AREVA has received a $2.8 million subcontract from URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) to support efforts to resolve a leaking reactor pool at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and retrieve and dispose of highly radioactive components stored in the pool at the old research […]

Lockheed Martin Contract Extended Through April 2017 Kenneth Fletcher NS&D Monitor 5/22/2015 The long-awaited procurement for the next contract to manage Sandia National Laboratories is moving forward, with the National Nuclear Security Administration releasing this week a sources sought notice and announcing plans to extend Lockheed Martin’s current contract for Sandia by another year. The […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 5/22/2015 The contract for the Long-Range Strike Bomber should be awarded this summer, the Air Force’s top acquisition official said late last week. “It’ll be done when it’s done, but I’m expecting the next one to two months,” Bill LaPlante, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition), said during an Air […]

Kenneth Fletcher NS&D Monitor 5/22/2015 The National Nuclear Security Administration has begun gearing up to compete the management-and-operations contract for the Nevada National Security Site. This week, the agency announced in a presolicitation notice that it expects to issue a Request for Proposals for the new contract, which will be competed on a full-and-open basis, […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 5/22/2015 AREVA TN has expanded its role in Waste Control Specialists’ pursuit of constructing an interim storage facility, the two companies announced this week. AREVA will serve as prime subcontractor for the project, providing the design, development, construction, operation and maintenance of the proposed consolidated storage facility, as well as […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 5/22/2015 Kurion has received a contract to design a water treatment system for the decommissioning of the Cimarron uranium fuel fabrication facility, located near Guthrie, Okla., the company announced this week. As part of the project, Kurion will leverage its Ion Specific Media technology to remove radioactive contaminants from groundwater, […]

AREVA TN has expanded its role in Waste Control Specialists’ pursuit of constructing an interim storage facility, the two companies announced yesterday. AREVA will serve as prime sub-contractor for the project, providing the design, development, construction, operation and maintenance of the proposed consolidated storage, as well as support for the licensing and transport of spent […]

The Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $4.7 million contract to conduct demonstration and validation (DemVal) studies on the Mk21 MIRV shroud for use on the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent, according to a Defense Department notice posted yesterday. The service did not immediately respond yesterday to a Weapons Complex Morning Briefing request for comment. The […]

The long awaited procurement for the Sandia National Laboratories M&O procurement is scheduled to be awarded by April 2017, as the National Nuclear Security Administration released a sources sought notice yesterday and announced it will extend by another year Lockheed Martin’s contract to run the Lab. NNSA plans to conduct a full and open competition […]

Alutiiq Professional Training, LLC, an 8(a) Alaskan Native Corporation based in Anchorage, has received an $11.3 million support services contract with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office. The performance period of the contract is about five years, and the work will include financial pricing review; general office administration; technical editing/writing; tracking and quality control […]

Kurion has received a contract to design a water treatment system for the decommissioning of the Cimarron fuel fabrication facility located near Guthrie, Okla., the company announced yesterday. As part of the project, Kurion will leverage its Ion Specific Media technology to remove radioactive contaminants from groundwater, like the process the company is using at […]