Contracts & Procurement

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 3/27/2015 As the competition for the new Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP ) Core contract moves forward, the Department of Energy is gearing up to extend the two current cleanup contracts at the Idaho site. This week, DOE notified CH2M-WG Idaho (CWI) and Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, that it plans to “pursue […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 3/27/2015 The Fiscal Year 2014 fee determination for Waste Isolation Pilot Plant M&O contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership, to be released “very soon,” will be reduced “significantly” due to the 2014 incidents at the plant, acting Department of Energy cleanup chief Mark Whitney said this week. Responding to questions about WIPP accountability […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 3/27/2015 LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky, LLC, the cleanup contractor for the Paducah site, earned about 83 percent of its available award fee in Fiscal Year 2014, for a total of $918,639 out of $1.1 million available, according to fee information the Department of Energy released this week. In the subjective […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 3/27/2015 The National Nuclear Security Administration is already reaping the benefits of consolidating the management and operating contracts at the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plants, having already saved $80 million, NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator Madelyn Creedon said in a response to a Government Accountability Office report that raised questions about […]

Swift & Staley Earns 95 Percent of FY’14 Award Fee for Infrastructure Support WC Monitor 3/27/2015 Swift & Staley, the infrastructure support services contractor at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, earned 95 percent of its available award fee in Fiscal Year 2014, according to information the Department of Energy released this week. The contractor received […]

Paducah environmental cleanup contractor LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky, LLC, earned about 84 percent of its available award fee in Fiscal Year 2014, according to fee information the Department of Energy released this week. The contractor earned $337,329 out of $443,854 in total available award fee, and 87 percent of its performance based incentive fee, […]

Potential bidders on the new Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) Core contract now have until April 7 to submit questions to the Department of Energy. Previously, questions were due by March 27. The extra time was provided in an amendment issued yesterday to the final Request for Proposals for the new contract. The amendment made no […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is already reaping the benefits of consolidating the management and operating contracts at the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plants, having already saved $80 million, NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator Madelyn Creedon said in a response to a Government Accountability Office report that raised questions about the cost of competing the […]

Swift & Staley’s contract for infrastructure support services at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant will be extended for three months for a value of $14.5 million, the Department of Energy announced Friday. The contract had been set to expire on March 30 and comes after bids for DOE’s follow-on contract were delivered in December. The […]

Plant Looking for Groundwater Well Activities Contractor NS&D Monitor 3/20/2015 Pantex Plant contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security is planning to put out a Request for Proposals for groundwater well activities, according to a solicitation released on FedBizOpps this week. CNS said it is looking for a contractor on an “as-needed basis” to support Pantex’s Long Term […]

Bids Due By May 12 Mike Nartker and Todd Jacobson WC Monitor 3/20/2015 With the procurement for the new Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) Core contract ramping up with the recent release of a final Request for Proposals, acting Department of Energy cleanup chief Mark Whitney said this week that he is “comfortable” with the expected […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 3/20/2015 PHOENIX, Ariz.—Executives from several major Department of Energy contractors urged the DOE Office of Environmental Management here this week to take a more “balanced” approach when it comes to evaluation criteria for bids on new contracts. In recent years, EM has moved to make past performance the top evaluation criteria […]

DOE to Stand Up New Los Alamos EM Field Office Next Week Kenneth Fletcher and Mike Nartker WC Monitor 3/20/2015 PHOENIX, Ariz.—As the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management prepares to stand up its new Los Alamos Site Office next week, the top EM procurement official said here this week that he is “fairly […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 3/20/2015 Portsmouth site facility support services contractor Wastren-EnergX Mission Support, LLC, earned 93 percent of its available Fiscal Year 2014 fee, or $1.44 million out of $1.56 million available, according to fee information the Department of Energy released this week. Overall, the contractor received an “excellent” rating from DOE’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project […]

Oak Ridge Increases Oversight at TWPC Preparing for Contract Transition WC Monitor 3/20/2015 The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Environmental Management Office will increase oversight of the Transuranic Waste Processing Center during the transition to a new contractor. DOE last month notified incumbent contractor Wastren Advantage, Inc. that it will be implementing an “enhanced oversight […]

Mike Nartker NS&D Monitor 3/20/2015 PHOENIX, Ariz.—The National Nuclear Security Administration is planning to move forward this fiscal year with three contracting opportunities to be set aside for small businesses, an agency official said this week. Such opportunities will include a contract to provide NEPA support services, which is set to be worth approximately $125 […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/20/2015 EnergySolutions announced this week that it had acquired MHF Services, an integrated packaging, transportation and logistics provider of radioactive, hazardous and non-hazardous materials. MHF Services will operate as its own subsidiary under the EnergySolutions banner, the company said. Terms of the deal were not provided. “We are pleased that […]

Portsmouth site facility support services contractor Wastren-EnergX Mission Support, LLC, in Fiscal Year 2014 earned 93 percent of its fee, or $1.44 million out of $1.56 million available, according to fee information the Department of Energy released this week. Overall, the contractor received an “excellent” rating from DOE’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office, an improvement over a […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is planning to move forward this fiscal year with three contracting opportunities to be set aside for small businesses, an agency official said yesterday. Such opportunities will include a contract to provide NEPA support services, which is set to be worth approximately $125 million over five years, NNSA Small Business […]

The top procurement official in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management said yesterday that he is “fairly confident” some of the legacy cleanup work to be performed at Los Alamos National Laboratory will be set-aside for small businesses. DOE is in the midst of acquisition planning for a set of post-Fiscal Year 2016 […]

The Department of Energy yesterday awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract to Trinity Engineering Associates, an 8(a) small business, for technical support services to the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center. The four-year contract has a maximum value of $4 million. Work under the contract includes quality assurance support, safety support, radiological protection support, emergency management […]

The final Request for Proposals for the new Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) Core contract contains “a fairly balanced incentive plan,” Jack Surash, deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, said yesterday. In response to industry concerns, DOE modified the proposed fee approach to allow the […]

EnergySolutions announced yesterday that it had acquired MHF Services, an integrated packaging, transportation and logistics provider of radioactive, hazardous and non-hazardous materials. MHF Services will operate as its own subsidiary under the EnergySolutions banner, the company said. Terms of the deal were not provided. “We are pleased that MHF is joining the EnergySolutions team,” EnergySolutions […]

The competition for the new Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) Core contract is now set to get underway in earnest, with the Department of Energy having issued the final Request for Proposals for the new contract late last week. The final RFP includes a new set of changes to the proposed fee structure for the contract, including reverting […]

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Environmental Management Office will increase oversight of the Transuranic Waste Processing Center during the transition to a new contractor, according to a Feb. 13 Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board site rep report. DOE Oak Ridge sent a letter in February to incumbent contractor Wastren Advantage, Inc., stating it will […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 3/13/2015 Bechtel National received a slight uptick in fee for its work at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant in the second half of 2014, according to information the Department of Energy released late this week. Bechtel National earned 65 percent of the award fee available for the six-month period, or $4.095 […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 3/13/2015 The Air Force plans to award multiple contracts for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent’s (GBSD’s) Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) phase, and will down-select for the Engineering & Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase, according to industry Q&As released March 9. The Air Force has not decided whether it will award the […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 5/12/2015 B&W Conversion Services, LLC, the managing contractor for the Department of Energy’s two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plants, earned 72 percent of the total available award fee for Fiscal Year 2014—$1.51 million out of $2.10 million, according to information DOE released this week. That is up from FY’13, when […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 3/13/2015 The National Nuclear Security Administration awarded a trio of Office of Secure Transportation support services contracts to small business-led teams last month. The NNSA last year decided to break the OST support services contracts into three different vehicles for Training Support Services, Administration Support Services, and Logistics and Fleet Management […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 3/13/2015 Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has awarded Electric Boat a $24.3 million modification to a November 2010 sole-source submarine research and development contract, according to a March 6 Defense Department announcement. The modification will involve engineering and technical design services to support research and development of advanced submarine technologies, to […]