Contracts & Procurement

AVANTech Inc. has acquired Diversified Technologies Services, Inc., the company announced yesterday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. DTS and its field services, system leasing and products will become a division within AVANTech. DTS will still remain in its Knoxville, Tenn. offices while AVANTech’s corporate headquarters will remain in Columbia, S.C., although the company […]

After the failed Antares rocket launch on Oct. 28 prompted ATK leadership to review the planned merger of its aerospace and defense businesses with the rocket’s manufacturer Orbital Sciences, ATK has decided to follow through with the move, according to a Nov. 17 announcement. “Since the incident, the companies have conducted a thorough review and […]

The Energy Technology and Environmental Business Association’s annual business opportunities conference kicks off tonight in Knoxville, Tenn., and runs through Thursday. Speakers from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management include Acting Assistant Secretary Mark Whitney, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition and Project Management Jack Surash, David Hess from the EM Consolidated Business Center […]

G4S Government Solutions will be sold to the private equity firm Alvarez & Marsal Capital Security Holdings, LLC, for $135 million, its parent company said last week. G4S, the global security company based in the United Kingdom, did not publicly reveal the buyer of its government solutions group, the security contractor formerly known as Wackenhut, […]

A Los Alamos National Laboratory spokesperson said late last week that the lab is working to address repeated deficiencies in its Earned Value Management System uncovered in recent reviews. As NS&D Monitor reported last week, the National Nuclear Security Administration is set to revoke the lab’s EVMS certification because of “systemic and material deficiencies” with the […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week extended the deadline for completion of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility by 10 years until March 30, 2025. Contractor CB&I AREVA MOX Services requested the extension in May after delays in construction due to funding cuts and delays in component deliveries. The scope of work will remain the […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management plans to hold a new Business Opportunity Forum next month. Topics to be discussed at the meeting, according to a notice issued late last week, will include ongoing and upcoming procurement activities, as well as “contractor cost/pricing information.” The meeting is scheduled to be held Dec. 11 […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor  11/14/2014 The Department of Energy is heading back to the drawing board after terminating an award for an Office of Health, Safety and Security technical and security support services contract for the second time. With its latest award under protest by a team led by Project Enhancement Corp., DOE this week […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 11/14/2014 Officials with Sandia National Laboratories improperly used government funds to lobby for an extension to the Lockheed Martin-run contractor’s management and operating contract, the Department of Energy’s Inspector General said in a report released this week. The IG report details a Sandia plan to push for a contract extension that […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 11/14/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration is not planning to release the names of the Source Selection Authority or Source Evaluation Board for its Kansas City National Security Campus procurement, the agency said late last week. “We consider the name of the source selection authority and any source evaluation board member […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 11/14/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration is set to withdraw the Earned Value Management System certification for Los Alamos National Laboratory because of “systemic and material deficiencies” with the system, according to a draft letter slated to be sent to acting Deputy Lab Director Paul Henry obtained by NS&D Monitor. The […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 11/14/2014 The Department of Energy this week formally selected Brookhaven Science Associates for a new five-year, $3.2 billion contract to run Brookhaven National Laboratory, choosing the only team to submit a bid for the contract. BSA, a partnership of Battelle and Stony Brook University, submitted the only proposal for the contract […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 11/14/2014 Potential bidders on the new Paducah infrastructure services now have an additional two weeks to prepare proposals thanks to an amendment to the final Request for Proposals for the new contract issued late this week. The amendment pushes back the due date for bids to Dec. 5, from Nov.  20, […]

NS&D Monitor 11/14/2014 IN THE INDUSTRY Ed Najmola, the construction vice president for Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility contractor CB&I AREVA MOX Services, is leaving for a corporate post at CB&I this month. Taking over as acting construction vice president will be Danny Hosey, most recently the contractor’s area project manager for HVAC. Najmola joined […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 11/14/2014 INTERA is looking to overturn the Small Business Administration’s determination that Navarro Research and Engineering met the size standard used in the procurement for the new Nevada National Security Site environmental programs services contract. Late last week, INTERA filed an appeal with the SBA’s Office of Hearings and Appeals challenging […]

Ed Najmola, the construction vice president for Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility contractor CB&I AREVA MOX Services, is leaving for a corporate post at CB&I this month. Taking over as acting construction vice president will be Danny Hosey, most recently the contractor’s area project manager for HVAC. Najmola joined MOX in 2010. "Ed has done […]

Sandia National Laboratories officials improperly used government funds to lobby for an extension to the Lockheed Martin-run contractor’s management and operating contract, the Department of Energy’s Inspector General said in a report released yesterday. The IG report detailed a Sandia plan to push for a contract extension that was hatched in 2009, relying heavily on […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is set to withdraw the Earned Value Management System certification for Los Alamos National Laboratory because of “systemic and material deficiencies” with the system, according to a draft letter slated to be sent to acting Deputy Lab Director Paul Henry obtained by NS&D Monitor. The letter from Los Alamos Field […]

INTERA is looking to overturn the Small Business Administration’s determination that Navarro Research and Engineering met the size standard used in the procurement for the new Nevada National Security Site environmental programs services contract. Late last week, INTERA filed an appeal with the SBA’s Office of Hearings and Appeals challenging the agency’s recent determination that […]

The Government Accountability Office has rejected the Department of Energy’s attempt to dismiss a protest by Project Enhancement Corporation of an Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security support contract award, but it threw out a supplemental protest by PEC that tried to argue that a post-award certification by the Small Business Administration should be […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is not planning to release the names of the Source Selection Authority or Source Evaluation Board for its Kansas City National Security Campus procurement, NNSA spokeswoman Shelley Laver said Friday. The agency announced the SEB for its Y-12/Pantex procurement, but shied away from revealing the SSA once the contract was […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 11/7/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration will compete the Kansas City National Security Campus management-and-operating contract for the first time in 14 years, hoping that competition for the contract will bring about an increase in performance at what is already one of the weapons complex’s highest achieving sites. The agency late […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor  11/7/2014 Babcock & Wilcox is moving ahead with a plan to separate its power generation business from its government and nuclear operations group, the company said this week as it released its third quarter financial earnings. The split is expected to be completed by mid-2015, and will result in the creation […]

Draft ‘Transition Plan’ Says New EM Los Alamos Field Office Could Open by January Mike Nartker NS&D Monitor 11/7/2014 As the Department of Energy prepares to shift management of the remaining legacy cleanup work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Office of the Environmental Management from the National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE anticipates […]

Draft ‘Transition Plan’ Says New EM Los Alamos Field Office Could Open by January Mike Nartker WC Monitor 11/7/2014 As the Department of Energy prepares to shift management of the remaining legacy cleanup work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Office of the Environmental Management from the National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE anticipates […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 11/7/2014 EnergySolutions is looking to hire Danny Nichols, who currently leads Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, from Babcock & Wilcox to oversee the company’s waste treatment facilities in Tennessee, WC Monitor has learned. Notably, B&W and EnergySolutions, along with URS, help make up ITG, responsible for the Idaho Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment […]

Todd Jacobson WC Monitor 11/7/2014 Babcock & Wilcox is moving ahead with a plan to separate its power generation business from its government and nuclear operations group, the company said this week as it released its third quarter financial earnings. The split is expected to be completed by mid-2015, and will result in the creation […]

Staff Reports WC Monitor 11/7/2014 Wastren Advantage Inc. received 68.5 percent of the maximum fee for the six-month performance period that ended July 31 in its latest performance review from the Department of Energy for managing the Oak Ridge Transuranic Waste Processing Center. In an Oct. 28 letter to WAI, Sue Cange, DOE’s acting environmental […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 11/7/2014 Potential bidders on the Department of Energy’s new contract to manage Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed facilities are raising questions about the skill mix required in the recently issued  draft Request for Proposals for the planned small business contract. Industry officials last week completed a site tour of one of the facilities […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 While Perma-Fix Environmental Services has experienced a string of poor quarterly performances dating back to last year, the company is on “an uphill ride” following its profitable third quarter results, Perma-Fix CEO Lou Centofanti said this week during the company’s third quarter earnings call. Perma-Fix reported an operating income […]