Contracts & Procurement

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 7/11/2014 The Department of Energy has begun soliciting information to see if the planned follow-on technical and administrative support services contract for the Carlsbad Field Office can be set-aside for small businesses. Late this week, DOE issued a request for information notice seeking capability statements from interested companies. Support services to […]

Liquid waste contractor Savannah River Remediation is seeking companies able to help plan and execute outage and non-outage scopes of work, according to an expression of interest posted yesterday. “Subcontractor must have an organization that is capable and largely self-sufficient, with the SRR focus on managing the interface between subcontractor activities, ongoing operations, and overall […]

Los Alamos National Laboratory has dropped a requirement in its request for expressions of interest for its Protective Force Services subcontract relating to source selection criteria to have provided protection for a Category One Special Nuclear Material facility, according to a posting yesterday. SOC Los Alamos, a Day and Zimmerman subsidiary, has provided security at […]

Mark Baca, a former official at the National Nuclear Security Administration, has joined the consulting firm Longneck & Associates as a senior associate. Prior to retiring from the NNSA in 2009, Baca served as the Associate Director of the Office of Technical Services at the NNSA Service Center, according to an L&A release issued late […]

Firms Have Received More Than $3M in Reimbursed Legal Costs Over Hanford Whistleblowers Mike Nartker and staff reports WC Monitor 7/3/2014 URS appears to be considering seeking reimbursement from the Department of Energy of more than half-a-million dollars for having one of its executives testify before Congress on whistleblowers at Hanford, according to a letter […]

Should Only Small Businesses Have Fixed-Price Work? Mike Nartker WC Monitor 7/3/2014 Some industry officials are questioning the Department of Energy’s recently announced plans to compete new contracts at the Idaho site, including the decision to set aside only fixed-price scope for small businesses. DOE’s new acquisition plan for post-Fiscal Year 2015 cleanup work at […]

Industry Day Scheduled For July 15 Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 7/3/2014 The Department of Energy this week released a draft Request for Proposals for the new Portsmouth infrastructure support services contract, which has an estimated value of more than $100 million. The new contract, which is being set aside for small businesses, is set to […]

Questions Persist Over DOE’s New Plans to Award Follow-On Contract Mike Nartker WC Monitor 7/3/2014 S.M. Stoller (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries) has received yet another extension to its contract to provide support services for the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management as the Department continues to work to award […]

Department Issues Draft RFP for Follow-On Contract Mike Nartker WC Monitor 7/3/2014 While Wastren Advantage Inc.’s current contract to operate the Oak Ridge Transuranic Waste Processing Center is set to expire in early 2015, the Department of Energy appears to be planning for at least a multi-month extension, according to the draft Request for Proposals […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 7/3/2014 Some potential bidders on the new contract to provide analytical and testing services at Hanford’s 222-S Laboratory appear to be worried that Hanford tank farms contractor Washington River Protection Solutions may have an unfair advantage if it chooses to participate in the procurement. In a recently released set of Q&As […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 7/3/2014 Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC,  formally took over management of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 and Pantex production plants this week, and while the workforce at both sites had already undergone trimming during CNS’ four-month transition period, President Jim Haynes said this week that additional reductions could come in […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 7/3/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration will not punish new Y-12/Pantex contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security for several major changes involving key personnel, NNSA Production Office Manager Steve Erhart said this week. In an interview with NS&D Monitor, Erhart said two early departures of key personnel and a key transfer of another […]

Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security formally took over management of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 and Pantex production plants yesterday, and while the workforce at both sites was trimmed during the transition period to the new contractor, CNS President Jim Haynes said there could be additional cuts to the workforce. In an interview with NS&D […]

Sellafield Limited is looking for long-term cleanup suppliers for the U.K. site using a 10-year agreement that could be worth up to £1.5 billion ($2.5 billion), the company said yesterday. The work would come under the Decommissioning Delivery Partnership, which “is not a traditional contract but a commercial framework agreement that can be called upon […]

Lee McIntire is set to retire as Chairman of CH2M Hill’s Board of Directors at the company’s September Board meeting. McIntire has served as Chairman since 2010, and held the role of CH2M Hill CEO from 2009 to 2013. He joined CH2M Hill as President and Chief Operating Officer in 2006. In a release issued […]

Some potential bidders on the new contract to provide analytical and testing services at Hanford’s 222-S Laboratory appear to be worried that Hanford tank farms contractor Washington River Protection Solutions may have an unfair advantage if it chooses to participate in the procurement. In a recently released set of Q&As for the 222-S lab procurement, […]

S.M. Stoller (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries) is getting a new three-month extension to its current contract to provide support services for the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management as the Department’s efforts to award a follow-on contract continue. Stoller’s latest extension would run from July 1 to Sept. 30, […]

The Department of Energy yesterday issued for industry comment a draft Request for Proposals for the new contract to operate the Oak Ridge Transuranic Waste Processing Center. The contract, which is being set aside for small businesses, is set to run for up to five years. The contract will have a three-year base period and […]

The Department of Energy plans to hold an industry day on July 15 and July 16 for companies interested in bidding on the new Portsmouth Infrastructure Support Services procurement. DOE expects to issue a draft Request for Proposals before July 4, according to a notice posted Friday. A pre-proposal conference and Portsmouth site tour will […]

Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security has completed all of the readiness reviews associated with its transition as the new Y-12/Pantex management and operating contract and is poised to formally take over as the new contractor at the sites Tuesday. The team, which also consists of Lockheed Martin, ATK and security contractor SOC, was initially awarded the […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 6/27/2014   CH2M-WG Idaho is continuing to push to receive more fee for work performed under the initial Idaho Cleanup Project contract, taking its case to the General Services Administration’s Civilian Board of Contract Appeals. John Corsi, a spokesman for CH2M Hill, the lead company in CWI, declined to comment this […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 6/27/2014   The team of CTI-URS has been eliminated from the competition underway for the new Nevada National Security Site environmental characterization and remediation services contract, WC Monitor has learned. The National Nuclear Security Administration rejected the team’s bid because it was found to be technically unacceptable, according to officials. The […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 6/27/2014   The Department of Energy has decided to conduct a third evaluation of all of the bids submitted for the new Office of Legacy Management support services contract in response to a recent Government Accountability Office decision to sustain a protest filed over DOE’s award of the new contract to […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 6/27/2014 As the Department of Energy begins moving forward with a procurement for a new contract to operate the Oak Ridge Transuranic Waste Processing Center, incumbent Wastren Advantage Inc. won’t be able to lead a bid to maintain the work due to the company’s size. WAI, which has managed the facility […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 6/27/2014 After months of planning, the Department of Energy officially announced this week that it will compete four new contracts for cleanup activities at the Idaho site post-Fiscal Year 2015. The new contracts—two of which will be competed on an unrestricted basis and two that will be set-aside for small businesses—are […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 6/27/2014 North Wind late this week won the Department of Energy’s new $25.6 million task order for environmental monitoring and D&D work at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site in California. The fixed price task order is set to run for up to five years, consisting of a three-year base […]

New Y-12/Px Contractor Says Retirement Due to ‘Family Medical Situation’ Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 6/27/2014 Bechtel executive Jim Allen, who was bid to be the chief operating officer for Y-12/Pantex contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security, is retiring and will not assume his role as the No. 2 official for the new contractor. CNS spokesman Jason Bohne […]

Staff Reports NS&D Monitor 6/27/2014 Incoming Y-12/Pantex contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security has confirmed that it’s considering moving part of the Uranium Processing Facility’s design work to Bechtel’s Government Services home base in Reston, Va., but a spokesman said it’s not a done deal and emphasized that it won’t involve a large-scale relocation of work now […]

The Department of Energy yesterday awarded a $2.9 million task order to KPMG LLP to perform audit services for DOE’s Portsmouth Paducah Project Office in Lexington, Ky. The task order has a two-year performance period. “KPMG will provide audit services that include, incurred costs audits, disclosure statement reviews and cost impact evaluations of the Portsmouth/Paducah […]

The Department of Energy yesterday officially announced plans to compete four contracts for post-Fiscal Year 2015 cleanup work at the Department’s Idaho site. Two of the contracts will be completed on an unrestricted basis, while two are being set-aside for small businesses. The new contracts are intended to replace those currently held by CH2M-WG Idaho, responsible for […]