Contracts & Procurement

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 The Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District issued a solicitation this week for remediation services at its Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program site in Luckey, Ohio. The contract for environmental remediation services and ancillary construction to support the cleanup is worth up to $100 million over 10 years, […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 U.S. Ecology announced better than expected third quarter financial results this week, with positive net income and operating income. During the third quarter, the company’s net income was $13.3 million, up from $10.3 million earned in the same period in 2013. Operating income was $26.8 million, up from $15.5 […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management late last week issued a draft Request for Proposal for new contracts to provide low-level waste and mixed-low level waste treatment services. The current set of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity-type contracts for waste treatment services ends in June 2015. DOE intends to […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 11/7/2014 Natural Resources Canada has extended the deadline for submittals to the Request for Response Evaluation on the government’s procurement to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear laboratories, the agency said last week. The deadline of Sept. 9, an extension from the previous Aug. 6 deadline, and the Oct. […]

Babcock & Wilcox is moving ahead with a plan to separate its power generation business from its government and nuclear operations group, the company said yesterday as it released its third quarter financial earnings. The split is expected to be completed by mid-2015, and will result in the creation of two companies: Charlotte-headquartered Babcock & […]

U.S. Ecology announced better than expected 3rd quarter results late yesterday, with positive net income and operating income. During the 3rd quarter, the company’s net income was $13.3 million, up from $10.3 million earned in the same period in 2013. Operating income was $26.8 million, up from $15.5 million in the third quarter last year. […]

With the Department of Energy working to shift responsibility for the remaining legacy cleanup work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Office of Environmental Management from the National Nuclear Security Administration, EM is looking at needing 18-to-24 months to compete and award new “incentive-based” cleanup contracts for the lab, according to a plan WC […]

The United Kingdom has selected Bechtel, CH2M Hill and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for a set of four “managed service provider contracts” designed to revamp the way it purchases equipment and vehicles for its armed forces. Bechtel has been offered a contract by the UK’s Ministry of Defense for Air and Fleet areas, while CH2M Hill has […]

The Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District issued a solicitation yesterday for remediation services at its Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program site in Luckey, Ohio. The contract for environmental remediation services and ancillary construction to support the cleanup is worth up to $100 million over 10 years, with a base period of five years […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management late last week issued a Draft Request for Proposals for low-level waste and mixed-low level waste treatment services. The current set of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts for waste treatment services ends in June 2015. DOE intends to issue one or more Basic Ordering Agreements in the second […]

Natural Resources Canada has extended the deadline for submittals to the Request for Response Evaluation on the government’s procurement to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear laboratories, the agency said last week. The deadline of Sept. 9, an extension from the previous Aug. 6 deadline, and the Oct. 29 deadline to add supplemental team […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 10/31/2014 With about 11 months left before Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies’ contract to run the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus expires, NNSA Administrator Frank Klotz said this week that an announcement on the contract will come “very soon.” Honeywell’s contract to run the plant expires Sept. […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 10/31/2014 Oak Ridge cleanup contractor URS CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC, earned $3.2 million in award fee out of an available $3.4 million available, almost 94 percent, for the period from Oct. 1, 2013, through March 2014, according to the Department of Energy’s latest fee determination. UCOR’s fee includes $609,749 in project […]

Todd Jacobson WC Monitor 10/31/2014 G4S Government Solutions, the G4S subsidiary formerly known as the security contractor Wackenhut, will be sold to private equity firm Alvarez & Marsal Capital Security Holdings, LLC, WC Monitor has learned. The firm is an affiliate of Alvarez & Marsal, a global professional services company. G4S, the massive international security […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 10/31/2014 G4S Government Solutions, the G4S subsidiary formerly known as the security contractor Wackenhut, will be sold to private equity firm Alvarez & Marsal Capital Security Holdings, LLC, NS&D Monitor has learned. The firm is an affiliate of Alvarez & Marsal, a global professional services company. G4S, the massive international security […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 10/31/2014 West Valley Demonstration Project contractor CH2M Hill B&W West Valley has improved schedule planning and addressed issues with its water treatment system after receiving about 53 percent of available award fee from the Department of Energy in the latest available period, CHBWV President Dan Coyne told WC Monitor this week. […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 10/31/2014 The Department of Energy late last week issued a draft Request for Proposals for the new contract to manage Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed facilities at the Department’s Idaho site and in Colorado. The new contract, which is being set aside for small businesses, would cover the Fort St. Vrain facility; the […]

Two GAO Protests Still Pending Mike Nartker WC Monitor 10/31/2014 Navarro Research and Engineering has survived the first challenge filed over its win of the new Nevada National Security Site environmental programs services contract, with the Small Business Administration having determined that Navarro did meet the size standard used for the small business set-aside procurement. […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 10/31/2014 Consolidated Nuclear Security, the Bechtel-led team that took over management of Y-12 and Pantex in July, has awarded a no fee subcontract to its parent company Bechtel National, Inc. to build the Uranium Processing Facility, UPF Project Director Brian Reilly said in a message to employees this week. The approach […]

Todd Jacobson WC Monitor 10/31/2014 Project Enhancement Corporation, the contractor protesting a Department of Energy technical and security support services contract for what was formally known as the Office of Health, Safety and Security, added several new complaints to its protest late last week, challenging DOE’s decision to quickly award the contract to Link Technologies […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 10/31/2014 Project Enhancement Corporation, the contractor protesting a Department of Energy technical and security support services contract for what was formally known as the Office of Health, Safety and Security, added several new complaints to its protest late last week, challenging DOE’s decision to quickly award the contract to Link Technologies […]

Kenneth Fletcher NS&D Monitor 10/31/2014 In a management change at the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project this week, CB&I AREVA MOX Services has named David Del Vecchio as the next president and project manager while current project head Kelly Trice will be the new senior vice president for CB&I’s power division. Trice will remain […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 10/31/2014 ATK senior managers are reviewing the planned merger of the company’s aerospace and defense divisions with Orbital Sciences after Orbital’s Antares rocket exploded during liftoff on Oct. 28 at Wallops Island, Va. ATK CEO Mark DeYoung delivered the information during the company’s Oct. 30 Q2 FY15 investor earnings conference call. […]

With about 11 months left on Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies’ contract to run the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus, NNSA Administrator Frank Klotz said yesterday that an announcement on the contract will come “very soon.” Honeywell’s contract to run the plant expires Sept. 30, 2015, and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz […]

G4S Government Solutions, the G4S subsidiary formerly known as the security contractor Wackenhut, will be sold to private equity firm Alvarez & Marsal Capital Security Holdings, LLC, NS&D Monitor has learned. The firm is an arm of Alvarez & Marsal, a global professional services company. G4S, the massive international security company based in the United […]

Navarro Research and Engineering has survived the first challenge filed over its win of the new Nevada National Security Site environmental programs services contract, with the Small Business Administration having determined that Navarro did meet the size standard used for the small business set-aside procurement. INTERA, one of the unsuccessful bidders on the new contract, […]

Oak Ridge cleanup contractor URS CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC, earned $3.2 million in award fee out of $3.4 million available, about 94 percent, for the period from October 2013 through March 2014, according to the latest available award fee determination. That includes $609,749 in project management incentive and $2.6 million for the cost incentive. “During […]

Project Enhancement Corporation, the contractor that is protesting a Department of Energy Office of Health, Safety and Security technical and security support services contract, added several new complaints to its protest late last week, challenging DOE’s decision to quickly award the contract to Link Technologies after the Small Business Administration ruled that PEC did not […]

West Valley contractor CH2M Hill B&W West Valley earned $150,000 out of $285,029 in available award fee from August 2013 through February 2014, or about 53 percent, according to the latest fee scorecard the Department of Energy has made available. DOE reduced the fee by $50,000 due to a Category 2 incident involving turbidity in […]

In a management change at the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project, CB&I AREVA MOX Services has named David Del Vecchio as the next president and project manager while current project head Kelly Trice will be the new senior vice president for CB&I’s power division. Trice will remain the president of CB&I Project Services Group […]