Contracts & Procurement

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 6/20/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration took the first tentative steps toward competing its Kansas City Plant contract this week, issuing a Request for Information June 18 that seeks input from companies interested in the contract to run the agency’s main non-nuclear production facility. Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies has been the […]

70 Incumbent Employees Turn Down Job Offers from CNS Staff Reports NS&D Monitor 6/20/2014 With less than two weeks to go before the official transition of contractors at Y-12 and Pantex, Consolidated Nuclear Security is going through a series of final readiness reviews in conjunction with the National Nuclear Security Administration Production Office and taking […]

NS&D Monitor 6/20/2014 IN DOE Only one team is believed to have submitted a proposal for the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory contract this week. Incumbent Brookhaven Science Associates—a partnership of Battelle and Stony Brook University—is believed to have been the only team to submit a proposal for the contract after interest from groups […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration took the first tentative steps toward competing its Kansas City Plant contract yesterday, issuing a Request for Information that seeks input from companies interested in the contract to run the agency’s main non-nuclear production facility. Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies has been the longtime contractor running the facility, and when the […]

Los Alamos National Laboratory is beginning the process of recompeting its protective forces subcontract, issuing a Request for Expressions of Interest yesterday. SOC Los Alamos, a Day and Zimmerman subsidiary, has provided security at the lab since 1992, beating out WSI (now known as G4S Government Solutions) and several other companies to retain the contract […]

Parsons has rejected the Department of Energy’s ‘best and final offer’ for a new agreement for commissioning and startup of the Salt Waste Processing Facility, WC Monitor has learned. SWPF startup talks have been ongoing since last summer, when a new agreement-in-principle was reached that covered only construction. DOE and Parsons have been negotiating a […]

With proposals due for the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory contract due this week, DOE has made a minor amendment to the procurement’s Request for Proposals. In an amendment released Friday, DOE clarified the procedures for submitting Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence information. DOE advised potential offerors to access up-to-date information on its FOCI […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 2/07/2014 Timothy Hallman, the Associate Director for Nuclear Physics in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, will serve as the Source Selection Official for the Department’s Brookhaven National Laboratory procurement, DOE officials said at an informational meeting last week. DOE released documents from the industry day this week, revealing the […]

NS&D Monitor 2/07/2014 IN THE INDUSTRY Marking the first time a nonfamily member has been selected to lead Bechtel, Bill Dudley has been named the company’s new President and CEO, effective immediately. Dudley, who previously held the position of president and chief operating officer, replaces Riley Bechtel, who is “stepping down for health reasons from […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 6/13/2014 As the Department of Energy pushes for more firm-fixed price contracts and aims to better define which efforts fall under regulations for capital asset projects, the move has led to some concern within the Department. DOE Office of Acquisition and Project Management Director Paul Bosco is working on new contracting […]

Staff reports NS&D Monitor 6/13/2014 New National Nuclear Security Administration chief Frank Klotz said last week that he’s pleased with the way the transition of contractors is proceeding at the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plants. “What we’re pleased with is the positive collaboration between the incoming and outgoing contractors, which is our expectation,” Klotz […]

DOE Earns Failing Score From SBA In FY’13 Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 6/13/2014 It may once again be hard for the Department of Energy to earn a passing grade from the Small Business Administration this fiscal year, as DOE and the SBA continue to work out details on a new law allowing some subcontracts to […]

GAO Releases Protest Decision Details Mike Nartker WC Monitor 6/13/2014   Almost a month after the Government Accountability Office called on the Department of Energy to re-evaluate two bids submitted for the new Office of Legacy Management support services contract in response to a successful protest, the Department’s plans for making a new award decision […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 6/13/2014 John Woolery has been named the new President and General Manager of B&W Conversion Services, LLC, the contractor responsible for the Department of Energy’s two depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion plants, effective July 1. That’s the same day that B&W Pantex, which Woolery currently heads, is set to be replaced by […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 6/13/2014   The Department of Energy is moving forward with procurements for new infrastructure support services contracts at the Paducah and Portsmouth sites. This week, DOE issued a draft Request for Proposals for the new Paducah contract, with industry comments due by July 3. The new contract is being set-aside for […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 1/31/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration this week released the detailed Fiscal Year 2013 Performance Evaluation Reports for its eight sites, shedding light on what its contractors did well—and not so well—during FY 2013 (links to the reports for each site can be found on the NNSA’s web site). B&W Y-12, […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 1/31/2014 A Government Accountability Office hearing on a protest of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex award by Babcock & Wilcox-led Nuclear Production Partners (NP2) has been pushed back until next week. The hearing was supposed to take place Jan. 29, but Ralph White, the GAO’s managing associate general counsel, confirmed […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 1/24/2014 With the clock ticking on the Government Accountability Office’s review of Babcock & Wilcox’s protest of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex procurement, the agency has scheduled a hearing for next week, NW&M Monitor has learned. Babcock & Wilcox-led Nuclear Production Partners pushed for a hearing on its third protest […]

Kenneth Fletcher and Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 1/24/2014 Some small businesses are concerned about the potential impacts of a provision passed by Congress last week that allows some subcontracts to be counted toward the Department of Energy’s small business prime contracting goal. The omnibus appropriations bill signed into law last week includes language that would […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 1/17/2014 The Department of Energy and Shaw AREVA MOX Services are in negotiations to revamp the contractor’s contract to build the multi-billion-dollar Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, though the talks have recently hit a snag because DOE has pushed for the work on the facility to be completed under a fixed […]

Mike Nartker NS&D Monitor 1/17/2014 The Department of Energy is considering creating a new Departmental organization that would be responsible for DOE’s major line-item construction projects across various programs, NW&M Monitor has learned. The proposal appears to be in its early stages, and its scope remains unclear, though it likely would entail those major construction […]

Mike Nartker NS&D Monitor 1/17/2014 The Department of Energy is in negotiations with former DOE official Dan Lehman on a new sole-source contract to help improve project management at the Department’s Office of Science. The contract is estimated to be worth approximately $185,000 and would run from Feb. 7 to Dec. 31, according to a […]

The Department of Energy yesterday issued a draft Performance Work Statement for the new Portsmouth infrastructure support services contract. In addition, DOE said it has “tentatively scheduled” a pre-solicitation conference for the new contract the week of July 14. The new contract is being set-aside for small businesses, and is set to run for up […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 1/10/2014 A Babcock & Wilcox-led team has three times protested the National Nuclear Security Administration’s actions on the Y-12/Pantex procurement, and a senior B&W official this week said the company supports scrapping the entire procurement and starting over, perhaps competing the two management-and-operating contracts separately. “We think there’s merit in DOE […]

SRNS EARNS 84 PERCENT OF FY’13 AWARD FEE NS&D Monitor 1/10/2014 Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the managing contractor for the Savannah River Site, earned 84 percent of its total available award fee in Fiscal Year 2013, earning about $47 million out of $56 million, according to information the Department of Energy released this week. The […]

Navarro Research and Engineering scored higher on its bid for the new Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management support services contract than the Department’s choice for a winner, Portage, according to the Government Accountability Office. The difference in the two contractors’ scores was outlined in the GAO’s decision to sustain a protest Navarro filed […]

The Department of Energy yesterday issued for industry comment a draft Request for Proposals for the new Paducah infrastructure support services contract. The new contract is being set-aside for small businesses that do not exceed a $35.5 million size standard, and is expected to run for up to five years—consisting of a one-year base period […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 4/04/2014 Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said this week that DOE is looking to award the new contract for deactivation services at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in September. During a joint House subcommittee hearing this week, Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) questioned plans for the contract given USEC’s upcoming return of […]

Pro2Serve Accusing FBP of Improperly Trying to Take Away Work, Employees Mike Nartker WC Monitor 4/04/2014 Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) is accusing Fluor-B&W Portsmouth, LLC, of improperly trying to take away its work at the Portsmouth D&D project—a move Pro2Serve alleges could put its “ongoing viability” at risk. Last week, Pro2Serve filed a lawsuit against FBP […]

Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 4/04/2014 The Department of Energy is proposing a new regulation that would allow it to withhold payments if a contractor’s business systems have “significant deficiencies.” That includes the accounting system, estimating system, purchasing system, earned value management system and property management system. “DOE proposes to implement compliance enforcement mechanisms in the […]