Contracts & Procurement

The Department of Energy’s Idaho Operations Office is looking to combine its two cleanup contracts starting in Fiscal Year 2016, but plans to break out some D&D work for small businesses, DOE Idaho cleanup program Manager Jim Cooper said yesterday. “We do recognize that our work is shrinking out there, our footprint is shrinking. So […]

A draft Request for Proposals for the new Paducah infrastructure services contract is set to be issued within the next 15 to 45 days, the Department of Energy said yesterday. The new contract is being set-aside for small businesses, with the procurement to use a size standard of $35.5 million, according to a notice posted […]

Waste Control Specialists announced yesterday that it has been awarded a contract to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Niskayuna, N.Y. The contract, awarded by URS Energy and Construction, the prime contractor at the Department of Energy site, calls for the transportation, […]

The Department of Energy issued a Request for Information (RFI) / Source Sought Notice yesterday on the FedBizOpps website seeking information on railcar design, testing, and approval for the transportation of High-Level Radioactive Material. DOE has begun laying the groundwork, as outlined in the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future’s recommendations, to begin taking […]

The Department of Energy is backing a proposed contract between USEC and Oak Ridge National Laboratory supporting the American Centrifuge technology, according to a court filing yesterday. A DOE research, development and deployment cost-share program supporting American Centrifuge ends at the end of the month, and the subcontract with ORNL contractor UT-Battelle would start May […]

Incumbent contractor EnergySolutions yesterday filed a claim for damages against the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in a challenge to the recent award of the Magnox/RSRL contract to the Cavendish Fluor Partnership. Bechtel, EnergySolutions’ teaming partner in the Reactor Site Solutions bid, did not join in the legal challenge. EnergySolutions contends that the NDA “has inconsistently and […]

It appears that there could be competition for the Brookhaven National Laboratory contract after all. Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) has kept a low profile during the BNL procurement, but industry officials say the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility contractor is strongly considering a bid for the contract. Brookhaven Science Associates, a partnership of Battelle […]

As part of a reorganization of URS’ Global Management and Operation Services Group, executives Duane Schmoker and Jim Hall will be leaving the company, WC Monitor has learned. Schmoker, vice president of the energy and science strategic business unit, has been with URS and its legacy companies for 23 years and will be leaving in […]

The Department of Energy’s Idaho office is conducting a market survey for the lease and loading of casks with spent nuclear fuel as well as the transportation of the fuel from non-commercial research reactors to the Idaho National Laboratory, according to a Sources Sought notice this week. The survey is intended for small businesses to […]

The Department of Energy has amended the Brookhaven National Laboratory Request for Proposals, stripping language that would have required companies to establish a new entity to bid on the contract. The RFP previously required that a new legal entity be created for procurement, but in a pre-proposal conference presentation last week, DOE said that was […]

The collective bargaining agreement between the Atomic Trades and Labor Council and B&W Y-12 is expected to be extended for one year after the union announced a “tentative” agreement on the extension yesterday. The ATLC agreement at Y-12 runs out June 22, and with transition ongoing to new contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security, union officials wanted […]

The Department of Energy is seeking small businesses able to perform probabilistic performance assessments and apply decision analysis tools to D&D work at the West Valley Demonstration Project, posting a sources sought notice yesterday. The contract would start by Jan 1, 2015 and would be under a joint effort between DOE and New York State […]

A proposed contract for continued funding of the American Centrifuge Project would see Oak Ridge National Laboratory entering into a $34 million subcontract with USEC to run the program through the end of the fiscal year. A Department of Energy research, development and deployment cost-share program supporting the technology ends at the end of the […]

A federal judge late last week blocked Fluor-B&W Portsmouth, LLC, from hiring employees of Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) at the Portsmouth D&D project. The judge partially granted a request from Pro2Serve for a temporary restraining order as it moves forward in its recently filed lawsuit against FBP. Pro2Serve has accused FBP of seeking to violate […]

A North Carolina State-led consortium has been awarded a $25 million grant by the National Nuclear Security Administration for research and development on nonproliferation capabilities. According to the NNSA, the team will perform research and development in methods for detecting foreign nuclear weapon proliferation activities, focusing on projects to enhance simulation capabilities, algorithms and modeling; […]

The Department of Energy is seeking industry comment as to whether an employee benefits test should be added to the planned Request for Proposals for the new contract to perform analysis and testing services at Hanford’s 222-S Laboratory. According to a notice issued yesterday, DOE is considering adding a requirement to the RFP to have […]

Three months after federal law enforcement agents raided the office of a subcontractor to URS-CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC (UCOR), the purpose of the raid remains unclear. On Jan. 16, agents with the FBI and the Department of Energy Inspector General’s Office removed records from the office of Transportation, Operations and Professional Services, Inc., which performs […]

Sellafield Ltd. yesterday selected a joint venture of AREVA, Mace and Atkins (a.m.a.) as the preferred bidder for the Silos Direct-encapsulation Plant Project at Sellafield. The a.m.a. joint venture will complete the engineering design, procurement, construction, and commissioning related activities for the facility. When complete, SDP will process nuclear waste recovered from the Magnox Swaf […]

The Department of Energy has extended from April 16 to April 28 its due date for responses from firms interested in providing architect and engineering services for design of the Sludge Processing Facility Buildouts Project at the Oak Ridge Transuranic Waste Processing Center. Questions about the procurement should be submitted no later than April 14. […]

Will there be a challenge to incumbent Brookhaven Science Associates at Brookhaven National Laboratory? An answer to that question could come into sharper focus this week as the Department of Energy holds a pre-proposal conference Thursday for its BNL procurement. The meeting will include a tour of the laboratory as well as insight into the […]

 Perma-Fix Environmental Services announced yesterday that it has received a contract from Kemron Environmental Services to help in the cleanup of the Safety Light Superfund Site, located in South Centre Township, Pa. The contract, valued at more than $500,000, calls for Perma-Fix “to provide radiation safety, waste characterization, and brokerage services” at the site over […]

New Y-12/Pantex contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security will hold several informational meetings later this month with employees at both sites. In a message to employees, CNS President Jim Haynes said informational meetings at Y-12 will be held April 15 and 16 from 4:45-6:30 p.m. in the New Hope Center, while Pantex meetings are scheduled for 4:30 […]

Advanced Technologies and Laboratories (ATL) has entered into an agreement to purchase DeNuke Services—a sale DeNuke Services President Fred Gardner said yesterday that he expects to complete within a month. “We’ve entered in a letter of intent and we’re selling all the assets of DeNuke to ATL,” Gardner told Weapons Complex Morning Briefing. “We think […]

US Ecology, Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire EQ – The Environmental Quality Company, an environmental services and waste management company based in Wayne, Michigan, with facilities throughout the Eastern United States. EQ is owned by an affiliate of New York based private equity fund Kinderhook Industries, LLC. The transaction, valued at $465 million, is expected […]

Some potential bidders on the new contract to provide architect and engineering services for design of the Sludge Processing Facility Buildouts Project at the Oak Ridge Transuranic Waste Processing Center appear to be concerned that incumbent Wastren Advantage may have an unfair advantage, according to a set of questions-and-answers the Department of Energy released late […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is monitoring changes to Los Alamos National Laboratory’s ethics review process in the wake of a DOE Inspector General report that led to the resignation last month of Deputy Director Beth Sellers, and the agency hasn’t made a decision whether or not to take further action against the lab, according […]

The Bechtel-EnergySolutions team appears to be considering challenging the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s recent award of the new Magnox contract to the Cavendish Fluor Partnership. EnergySolutions currently manages the 10 Magnox reactor sites and expects to earn $1.2 billion in the contract year that ended this week, according to a financial filing posted yesterday. The […]

A University of Michigan-led consortium has been awarded a $25 million grant by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development for research and development in nuclear arms control verification technologies. The grant is expected to provide the consortium $5 million per year over the five-year life of the contract, […]

The Department of Energy will hold a pre-proposal conference April 17 for its Brookhaven National Laboratory procurement, it said yesterday. The daylong meeting will take place at the Upton, N.Y., lab and will begin at 9:15 a.m. The meeting will include a tour of the laboratory as well as insight into the recently released Request […]

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority plans to complete a five-month transition by Sept. 1 for the new Magnox contract to the Cavendish Fluor Partnership. The NDA announced yesterday its selection of the joint venture between Fluor Corporation and U.K.-based Babcock subsidiary Cavendish Nuclear to manage the 10 Magnox reactor sites and two research reactor sites under […]