Contracts & Procurement

The Air Force yesterday released a third RFI and a draft RFP for the ICBM Airborne Launch Control System Replacement (ALCS-R), a central nuclear command and control component which the service would like to use to support the Minuteman 3 through approximately 2035 and to meet alternate launch requirements for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent through […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration yesterday issued a presolicitation notice for a full and open competition for the contract covering management and operations of the Nevada National Security Site. National Security Technologies, LLC, currently holds the contract, which is set to expire in September 2016. The follow-on contract is expected to have a five year […]

The contract for the Long-Range Strike Bomber should be awarded in the next one to two months, the Air Force’s top acquisition official said on Friday. “It’ll be done when it’s done, but I’m expecting the next one to two months,” Dr. Bill LaPlante, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition), said during an Air […]

System Upgrade on Hold Due to Lack of Funding Kenneth Fletcher NS&D Monitor 5/15/2015 Costs have more than quadrupled for a security system upgrade at the Nevada National Security Site with no firm completion date due to a lack of funding and project management issues by contractor National Security Technologies, LLC, according to a Department […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 5/15/2015 Boeing’s CEO this week played down concerns that the unsuccessful pursuit of the new Long-Range Strike Bomber could have significant impacts on the company. “There’s enough technology and we regroup and regrow organically,” Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said during a May 12 investor conference. Developed through Boeing Commercial Airlines (BCA) […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 5/15/2015 Navy Strategic Systems Programs intends to negotiate a modification by May 29 to accelerate the delivery and increase the number of launcher subsystem tactical hardware for installation of the 1st Article missile tube quad pack for the Ohio Replacement and UK Successor programs’ Common Missile Compartment, according to Defense Department […]

Los Alamos Guards Union Looks to Resume Contract Talks Next Week NS&D Monitor 5/15/2015 Talks appear set to resume next week on a new collective bargaining agreement for protective force workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, though the union representing the protective force workers is not optimistic an “acceptable” economic package will be reached. The […]

Staff Reports WC Monitor 5/15/2015 Hanford cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. has been awarded 98 percent of the possible fee it could earn from the Department of Energy for its performance in Fiscal Year 2014. That was slightly better than the 95 percent of possible fee it earned for work performed in FY’13. […]

Sellafield Awards £50 Million Canister Contract to Metalcraft Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 5/15/2015 Sellafield Limited has awarded a contract worth up to £50 million ($78 million) to Metalcraft for providing high integrity stainless steel nuclear waste storage containers for material stored at the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo, the company announced this week. The contract covers […]

Costs have more than quadrupled for a security system upgrade at the Nevada National Security Site with no firm completion date due to a lack of funding and project management issues by contractor National Security Technologies, LLC, according to a Department of Energy Inspector General report released yesterday. The Argus project aims to update the […]

Talks appear set to resume next week on a new collective bargaining agreement for protective force workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, though the union representing the protective force workers is not optimistic an “acceptable” economic package will be reached. The International Guards Union of America Local 69 broke off talks with the lab’s protective […]

Sellafield Limited has awarded a contract worth up to £50 million ($78 million) to Metalcraft for providing high integrity stainless steel nuclear waste storage containers stored at the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo at U.K.’s Sellafield site, the company announced yesterday. The contract covers the procurement of 2,200 three cubic meter boxes needed to store the […]

Navy Strategic Systems Programs intends to negotiate a modification by May 29, to accelerate the delivery and increase the number of launcher subsystem tactical hardware for installation of the 1st Article missile tube quad pack for the Ohio Replacement and UK Successor programs’ Common Missile Compartment, according to a Friday Defense Department announcement. Northrop Grumman […]

In the latest twist in the negotiations between Los Alamos National Laboratory and its protective force workers on a new collective bargaining agreement, International Guards Union of America Local 69 announced late last week that its members had unanimously voted “no confidence” in SOC-Los Alamos’ ability to manage the lab’s security contract. The move came […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 5/8/2015 While Babcock and Wilcox’s Technical Services Group is still grappling with the loss of the Y-12 and Pantex managing contracts, B&W President and CEO James Ferland expressed optimism this week about the unit’s future, especially as B&W moves forward with a restructuring to spin-off its power generating unit. In a […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 5/8/2015 Hanford cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. (CHPRC) is facing a lawsuit from one of its subcontractors alleging it has experienced more than $12 million in damages for work on the K West Basin Annex construction project. Federal Engineers and Constructors (FE&C) filed the suit on April 21 in […]

DOE Awards Contract for Los Alamos Scope Planning  WC Monitor 5/8/2015 The Department of Energy this week awarded a contract to IEI-PEC, JV, for scope planning at the Office of Environmental Management’s Los Alamos Field Office.  EM is currently standing up a new field office at Los Alamos and is the midst of planning a […]

Mike Nartker NS&D Monitor 5/8/2015 While Babcock and Wilcox’s Technical Services Group is still grappling with the loss of the Y-12 and Pantex managing contracts, B&W President and CEO James Ferland expressed optimism this week about the unit’s future, especially as B&W moves forward with a restructuring to spin-off its power generating unit. In a […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 5/8/2015 The Air Force announced early this week plans to extend by at least three months Northrop Grumman’s Partial Bridge Contract (PBC)—comprising sustainment of the Minuteman 3 Propulsion System. The service awarded a three-month basic extension with two additional three-month options for the PBC. The PBC could conclude as late as […]

Mike Nartker NS&D Monitor 5/8/2015 The National Nuclear Security Administration late this week began conducting market research to see if a planned contract to help install radiation detection systems to prevent nuclear smuggling can be set aside for small businesses. The new contract is a follow-on to an existing contract to provide design, integration, construction, […]

Mike Nartker NS&D Monitor 5/8/2015 Talks on a new collective bargaining agreement between Los Alamos National Laboratory and its protective force workers ran into a significant roadblock this week, with International Guards Union of American Local 69 breaking off talks after accusing the lab’s protective force subcontractor, SOC-Los Alamos, of negotiating “in bad faith.” The […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 5/8/2015 The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division has awarded Lockheed Martin a $16 million sole-source indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for technical engineering, life cycle support and repair services of Ohio-class submarine data processing system (DPS) equipment and related systems, according to a May 1 Defense Department announcement. The announcement defines DPS […]

ATLC Agrees To Two-Month Extension for Current Contract NS&D Monitor 5/8/2015 The stretched-out and so-far-unsuccessful union negotiations at the Pantex nuclear weapons plant are apparently having an impact on Y-12 in Oak Ridge, the sister plant that is managed under the same contract as the Amarillo, Texas, plant. Steve Jones, president of the Atomic Trades […]

Talks on a new collective bargaining agreement between Los Alamos National Laboratory and its protective force workers ran into a significant roadblock yesterday, with International Guards Union of American Local 69 breaking off talks after accusing the lab’s protective force subcontractor, SOC-Los Alamos, of negotiating “in bad faith.” The union has accused SOC-Los Alamos of […]

Babcock and Wilcox appears to have gotten 2015 off to a good start, reporting yesterday increases in revenue and income for the first quarter compared to the same period last year. B&W reported first quarter revenues of $730.6 million, a 10.4 percent increase from the same period in 2014. The company also reported an operating […]

The Air Force announced this week that it is extending Northrop Grumman’s Partial Bridge Contract (PBC)—comprising sustainment of the Minuteman 3 Propulsion System—by approximately nine months. The PBC is a transitional award linking Northrop’s contract as ICBM Prime Integration Contractor (IPIC) to the Air Force-managed Future ICBM Sustainment and Acquisition Construct (FISAC). The service has awarded […]

AREVA TN announced yesterday that Exelon Nuclear awarded the company a contract to supply 30 additional NUHOMS HSM-H used fuel storage modules at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in New York. According to the company, AREVA will construct the horizontal storage modules onsite to reduce the cost of transporting the materials. Nine Mile Point […]

The Army Corp of Engineers Huntsville District issued a pre-solicitation notice last week for an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide services related to the preparation of environmental documents and remediation for hazardous/toxic radioactive wastes studies and the military munitions response program in the Pacific Ocean Division. Terms and length of the contract have […]

The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division has awarded Lockheed Martin a $16 million sole-source indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for technical engineering, life cycle support and repair services of Ohio-class submarine data processing system (DPS) equipment and related systems, according to a Friday Defense Department announcement. The announcement defines DPS as a “mission critical” legacy subsystem […]

The Department of Energy late last week issued draft evaluation criteria (Section M) and instructions to offerors (Section L) for the planned procurement for a new contract to manage the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. According to the draft evaluation criteria, “Strategic Vision for ORISE as a DOE Institute,” “Leadership, Management, and Direction” […]