Contracts & Procurement

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 2/27/2015 Colin Jones, a senior official in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, is leaving DOE to take a corporate vice president position with CH2M Hill, WC Monitor has learned. Jones is stepping down as EM Chief of Staff effective March 13, acting Assistant Energy Secretary for EM Mark […]

Todd Jacobson WC Monitor 2/27/2015 Operating income for B&W’s Technical Services Group took a significant dip in the fourth quarter of 2014, dropping to $345,000—$10 million less than during the fourth quarter of 2013—as B&W dealt with the loss of its Y-12 and Pantex management and operating contracts and lower fee from weapons complex sites […]

Kenneth Fletcher NS&D Monitor 2/27/2015 The Department of Energy should incentivize contractors through performance and award fee or risk losing competition on procurements, industry executives said last week in a roundtable discussion at the seventh annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit. The discussion comes as the Department is undertaking a new contract management strategy that includes moving […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 2/27/2015 Past performance is likely to remain heavily weighted in future National Nuclear Security Administration management-and-operating procurements, but decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis, NNSA Acquisition and Project Management chief Bob Raines said last week. Speaking on the sidelines of the Seventh Annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit, Raines declined to […]

Staff Reports NS&D Monitor 2/27/2015 Already holding a dominant position among the Department of Energy’s science and energy labs, Battelle is eyeing a possible enhanced role in the nuclear weapons complex. Ron Townsend, Battelle’s executive vice president for global laboratory operations, acknowledged last week that Battelle—billed as the world’s largest private nonprofit research and development […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 2/27/2015 Los Alamos National Security, the M&O contractor for Los Alamos National Laboratory, put out a Request for Information this week seeking vendors capable of handling, shipping, and storing radioactive sealed sources and disassembling devices containing radioactive sealed sources. The scope of work for the contract will include shipping the […]

Staff Reports NS&D Monitor 2/27/2015 A top official at Consolidated Nuclear Security, the Bechtel-led partnership that manages the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plants under a combined contract, said last week that there’s “not much flexibility at this point” for moving funds back and forth between the Tennessee and Texas plants. Dave Beck, vice president […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 2/27/2015 Operating income for B&W’s Technical Services Group took a significant dip in the fourth quarter of 2014, dropping to $345,000—$10 million less than during the fourth quarter of 2013—as B&W dealt with the loss of its Y-12 and Pantex management and operating contracts and lower fee from weapons complex sites […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 2/27/2015 Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) is prepared to boost spending on its Newport News, Va., shipyard to support Ohio-class Replacement (ORP) development as the parallel procurement timelines of that program and Virginia-class submarine are expected to require greater capital expenditures, HII CEO Mike Petters said last week. “As the submarine industrial […]

Operating income for B&W’s Technical Services Group took a significant dip in the fourth quarter of 2014, dropping to $345,000—$10 million less than during the fourth quarter of 2013—as B&W dealt with the loss of its Y-12 and Pantex management and operating contracts and lower fee from weapons complex sites impacted by the Waste Isolation […]

Los Alamos National Security, through its prime contract with the National Nuclear Security Administration, put out a Request for Information yesterday for vendors capable of handling, shipping, and storing radioactive sealed sources, and disassembling devices containing radioactive sealed sources. The scope of work for the contract will include shipping the sealed sources, removing if necessary […]

Preparing for the transition of cleanup work at Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Office of Environmental Management, the Department of Energy this week posted a new position for the Manager of the Environmental Management Los Alamos Office.  Last fall DOE announced that it would transfer the management of LANL legacy cleanup work from the […]

The Department of Energy plans to issue a draft request for proposal in the next week for a probabilistic performance assessment at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York, according to a notice posted yesterday. The assessment would support the DOE and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to undertake analyses […]

CH2M Hill shareholders late last week approved a proposal that would allow the company to seek minority investment from outside investors. The proposal, as outlined in a proxy statement issued last month, involves the elimination of the “prohibition on the issuance of common stock, directly or indirectly, to persons other than employees, directors, consultants or […]

Bidders on the new Portsmouth infrastructure support services now have an extra two weeks to prepare and submit proposals. Late last week, the Department of Energy issued an amendment to the Request for Proposals for the new contract moving the bid due date to March 12, from an earlier deadline of Feb. 26. The move […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 2/20/2015 Industry officials appear to be concerned about potential impacts that government inspection requirements could have on the delivery schedule for Reentry Field Support Equipment (RFSE) that supports work on the Minuteman 3 re-entry systems prior to attaching the system to the missile, according to a set of questions-and-answers for the […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 2/20/2015 Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) wants a New Mexico-based consortium to run at least one of the nuclear weapons laboratories in his state, and he urged the state legislature, Gov. Susana Martinez (R), New Mexico universities and local industry this week to consider making a run for one of the […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 2/20/2015 Gearing up for the upcoming procurement for a new contract for legacy cleanup work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Department of Energy plans to hold an industry day March 3 in Pojoaque, N.M. DOE announced last fall plans to shift management of the legacy cleanup work at LANL […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 2/20/2015 A senior Fluor executive late this week questioned the Department of Energy’s recent decision to issue a fine of almost a quarter-of-a-million dollars against Fluor-B&W Portsmouth, LLC, for a data falsification incident at the Portsmouth D&D project. Saying that some DOE enforcement decisions “don’t make a lot of sense to […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 2/20/2015 The long-drawn-out search for a new support services contractor for the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management hit a new roadblock this week, with DOE now facing two challenges to its latest award decision. Portage and a team led by Wastren Advantage each filed a protest with the Government […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 2/20/2015 West Valley Demonstration Project cleanup contractor CH2M Hill B&W West Valley earned about 60 percent, or $175,000, of its available award fee for the second half of Fiscal Year 2014, according to a fee determination scorecard the Department of Energy released this week. CHBWV’s score was slightly better than what […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 2/20/2015 After keeping its plans quiet for weeks, Babcock & Wilcox said today that it is bidding for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus management-and-operating contract. B&W led teams that ran the NNSA’s Y-12 and Pantex plants up until last year, but after its defeat to Bechtel-led […]

Staff Reports WC Monitor 2/20/2015 The highest level CH2M Hill Hanford Group official accused of aiding timecard fraud calls the civil fine he agreed to in exchange for having criminal charges dropped extortion. More than 20 months after Ryan Dodd, a former vice president for CH2M Hill, was charged with 34 felony counts, the Department […]

An Industry Day for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), the expected follow-on for the Minuteman 3, is scheduled to start today at Hill AFB in Utah, and will run through Friday. Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center and the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate are sponsoring the classified event, and attendance […]

Prospective bidders of Reentry Field Support Equipment (RFSE) asked the Air Force about language in the original RFSE RFP stating that contractors were not allowed to incur any cost for work on RFSE Suites 2-6 until the government gave those companies an Authorization to Proceed (ATP), with the companies expressing concern that prohibition of advance […]

The Department of Energy is facing at least one challenge to its latest effort to award the new support services contract for the Office of Legacy Management. A team led by Wastren Advantage Inc. has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office over DOE’s move to award the contract to Navarro Research and Engineering. […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has raised the ceiling on its Design, Integration, Construction, Communication, and Engineering (DICCE) services multiple-award contract from $700 million to $790 million, allowing existing work for the NNSA’s Office of Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence to continue. In separate sole source justifications for the two remaining DICCE contractors, SES-TECH Global […]

The Department of Energy’s contractor National Security Technologies issued a sources sought notice for a subcontract to drill boreholes at the Nevada National Security Site late last week. DOE has recently begun to look at borehole disposal as an alternative disposal path for some DOE-managed high-level waste. This contract would call for the constriction of […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 2/13/2015 Given years of delays in the Department of Energy’s audits of contractor costs for non-M&O (management and operating) contracts, DOE should develop a risk-based comprehensive plan to undertake the reviews, the Department’s Office of Inspector General said in a report released this week. The IG review focused on delays in […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 2/13/2015 The Air Force is extending by 21 days the response deadline for a Request for Proposals the service released on Jan. 13 for Reentry Field Support Equipment (RFSE) to support testing and maintenance of Minuteman 3 reentry vehicles, according to a Feb. 9 announcement. Interested contractors must now submit proposals […]