Contracts & Procurement

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. One area in the draft likely to prompt questions from industry officials is DOE’s proposed evaluation criteria, which appears to deviate from the Department’s […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 10/24/2014 The Department of Energy has stopped work on a recent support services contract award to Link Technologies after a team led by Project Enhancement Corporation filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office late last week. The protest represents the latest turn of events in a battle over the three-year, […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 10/24/2014 AMELIA ISLAND, Fla.—Savannah River Nuclear Solutions President Carol Johnson said here this week that severing tritium work from the contractor’s Savannah River management and operating contract would be “very detrimental” to the work at the site. When the NNSA consolidated management of the Y-12 and Pantex plants July 1, it […]

Mike Nartker NS&D Monitor 10/24/2014 AECOM late last week wrapped up its acquisition of URS following approval of the deal by URS shareholders and approval of a stock issuance proposal by AECOM shareholders. “Today is an exciting and historic day–for our industry, for AECOM and URS, and for our nearly 100,000 people around the world […]

Link Technologies Wins EM Support Contract WC Monitor 10/24/2014 Link Technologies has won a five-year contract worth approximately $20 million to provide support to the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management. Notably, while Link Technologies is a small business, the contract was competed on an unrestricted basis. Services to be provided under […]

Third Evaluation of Bids Underway Mike Nartker WC Monitor 10/24/2014 The Department of Energy’s search for a new support services contractor for the Office of Legacy Management continues to drag on, as DOE asked bidders this week to again extend their proposals’ expiration dates, this time by another six weeks to mid-December. DOE did not […]

Todd Jacobson WC Monitor 10/24/2014 The Department of Energy has stopped work on a recent support services contract award to Link Technologies after a team led by Project Enhancement Corporation filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office late last week. The protest represents the latest turn of events in a battle over the three-year, […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 10/24/2014 AMELIA ISLAND, Fla.—Senior executives from most major Department of Energy cleanup contractors gave a resounding thumbs down here this week to DOE’s new Idaho cleanup contract as currently planned in draft form, and it remains to be seen if, and to what degree, DOE makes changes when it issues a […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 10/24/2014 Two companies have filed protests with the Government Accountability Office over Navarro Research and Engineering’s win of the new Nevada National Security Site environmental program services contract. The GAO currently expects to resolve the protests, filed by Portage and INTERA, by late January, according to the agency’s website. Navarro and […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 10/24/2014 Contrary to what some industry officials had hoped, the new contract to operate the Department of Energy’s depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion plants won’t be set aside for small businesses. Instead, DOE plans to compete the new contract on a full-and-open basis, according to a notice issued late this week. Prior […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 10/24/2014 AMELIA ISLAND, Fla.—A mission support-type contract for the Savannah River Site could be one of the options considered as the Department of Energy discusses future contracts at the site, DOE Savannah River Manager David Moody said here this week. “We are talking to our sister sites that have mission support […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 10/24/2014 AECOM late last week wrapped up its acquisition of URS following approval of the deal by URS shareholders and approval of a stock issuance proposal by AECOM shareholders. “Today is an exciting and historic day–for our industry, for AECOM and URS, and for our nearly 100,000 people around the world […]

WC Monitor 10/24/2014 IN DOE The Department of Energy plans to issue in the next 15-30 days a draft Request for Proposals for the new Carlsbad technical and administrative support services contract, according to a notice released Oct. 22. The new contract is anticipated to be set aside for small businesses that meet a size […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 10/24/2014 A contract for the completion of a front end engineering design (FEED) study for the subsea pipeline portion of Royal Dutch Shell’s Peterhead Carbon Capture and Storage project was awarded late last week to the engineering firm, Wood Group Kenny. The contract will span six months and will include […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 10/24/2014 The Army Corp of Engineer’s St. Louis District issued a sources sought notice this week seeking contractors for remediation efforts at its Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program sites, according to a posting on FedBizOpps. The notice is meant to identify small businesses capable of handling the radioactive waste […]

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions President Carol Johnson said severing tritium work from the contractor’s Savannah River management and operating contract would be “very detrimental” to the work at the site. When the NNSA consolidated management of the Y-12 and Pantex plants July 1, it retained an option to fold in Savannah River tritium work after […]

The Department of Energy has extended Project Enhancement Corporation’s Office of Health, Safety and Security nuclear safety support small business set-aside contract through Dec. 25 with the possibility of another three one-month options while PEC’s protest of a follow-on contract award to Link Technologies is decided, DOE said yesterday in a posting on fbo.gov. Through […]

With industry executives unhappy with provisions in the draft Request for Proposals for the new Idaho cleanup contract, the Department of Energy is “actively considering” the feedback it has received on the procurement, Jack Surash, deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management in DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, said yesterday. Surash, however, declined to […]

The Department of Energy plans to issue in the next 15-30 days a draft Request for Proposals for the new Carlsbad technical and administrative support services contract, according to a notice released yesterday. The new contract is anticipated to be set aside for small businesses that meet a size standard of 500 employees, and is […]

The Department of Energy’s search for a new support services contractor for the Office of Legacy Management appears set to continue to drag on, as DOE asked bidders yesterday to again extend their proposals’ expiration dates, this time by another six weeks to mid-December. DOE did not respond to requests for comment yesterday as to […]

Senior executives from the teams that have formed to compete for the new Idaho cleanup contract indicated yesterday that their companies won’t bid on the contract as currently planned. During a panel session at this year’s Weapons Complex Monitor Decisionmakers’ Forum, executives from most major DOE cleanup contractors expressed concern with language in the draft […]

The Army Corp of Engineer’s St. Louis District issued a sources sought notice yesterday seeking contractors for remediation efforts at its Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program sites, according to a posting on FedBizOpps. The notice is meant to identify small businesses capable of handling the radioactive waste associated with cleanup at the sites. “The […]

The Department of Energy plans to hold Oct. 28-29 a pre-solicitation conference, site tour and industry one-on-one sessions for the new contract to manage Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed facilities at the Idaho site. The new contract, which is being set aside for small businesses, would cover the Fort St. Vrain facility; the Three Mile Island-2 (TMI-2) […]

In the latest challenge to Navarro Research and Engineering’s recent win of the new contract to provide environmental program services at the Nevada National Security Site, Portage has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office over the award, with the GAO currently set to render a decision by late January. Officials with Portage and […]

The Department of Energy has stopped work on a recent contract award to Link Technologies after a team led by Project Enhancement Corporation filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office late last week. The protest represents the latest turn of events in a year-long battle over the $44 million security support services small business […]

AECOM late last week wrapped up its acquisition of URS following approval of the deal by URS shareholders and approval of a stock issuance proposal by AECOM shareholders. “Today is an exciting and historic day–for our industry, for AECOM and URS, and for our nearly 100,000 people around the world who are serving our clients […]

Staff Reports NS&D Monitor 10/17/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration has beefed up federal oversight of the Uranium Processing Facility project in the wake of a space/fit issue that added $540 million to the projected cost of the now-scaled-back facility, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released late last week. The project was […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 10/17/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration plans to continue to increase the use of firm fixed-price contracting for non-major capital projects as one of the strategies to improve its project management, the agency said in a report to Congress last month obtained by NS&D Monitor. The Congressionally mandated report notes that […]

More than 90 percent of the Department of Energy’s $26 billion budget is contracted out to a host of firms, large and small. DOE has been working hard over the past several years to improve how it reports, records and tracks contractor performance—a laudable goal, considering how much money is on the line. But there’s […]

More than 90 percent of the Department of Energy’s $26 billion budget is contracted out to a host of firms, large and small. DOE has been working hard over the past several years to improve how it reports, records and tracks contractor performance—a laudable goal, considering how much money is on the line. But there’s […]