Contracts & Procurement

Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security unveiled its organizational structure yesterday and shed more light on its executive management team according to a message to employees from President Jim Haynes. The organization will be structured with Pantex and Y-12 reporting up to Haynes and Chief Operating Officer Jim Allen, with support organizations known as Mission Support; Mission […]

Battelle Energy Alliance is set to earn less fee for managing the Idaho National Laboratory under a five-year contract extension announced late last week. While BEA was able to earn a maximum of $18.7 million in fee annually during its first five years at INL, for the next five years the contractor can only earn […]

The Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District announced the awarding of a contract to CB&I Federal Services for the decommissioning of an Army ship nuclear reactor. The contract, worth approximately $37.7 million, calls for the dismantlement of the MH-1A nuclear reactor currently installed on the STURGIS barge, which is stored at the James River Reserve […]

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority this morning awarded the Cavendish-Fluor Partnership the new contract to manage the 10 Magnox nuclear reactor sites and two research reactor sites. The other three teams, which submitted bids last fall, include Reactor Site Solutions, comprised of Bechtel and EnergySolutions; CAS Restoration Partnership, made up of CH2M Hill, AREVA and Serco; […]

New Y-12/Pantex contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security can earn up to $39.9 million in performance fee under its new contract, plus tens of millions of dollars more as its share of the cost savings it plans to achieve as the new manager of the sites, according to the company’s new contract. The 235-page document released yesterday […]

The Department of Energy has had discussions with the companies that run Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories about reducing the fee paid to the companies, acting National Nuclear Security Administration chief Bruce Held confirmed yesterday. Speaking on the sidelines of a Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing that was postponed, Held noted […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is seeking market research information on potential companies capable of treating low-level radioactive waste and mixed low-level waste originating from its federal facilities, according to a Sources Sought Synopsis/Request For Information posted yesterday. The current Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts for the waste treatment services ends next year […]

The Department of Energy plans to hold a site tour next week for companies interested in bidding 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. The site tour is scheduled to be held April 3, and […]

Consolidated Nuclear Security, the new Y-12/Pantex management and operating contractor, plans to extend job offers to existing employees starting April 15, CNS President Jim Haynes said in a message to employees yesterday. With the Bechtel-led contractor moving into its fourth week of transition, Haynes outlined a series of coming milestones in addition to the schedule […]

After protracted talks on a path forward for commissioning and startup of the Salt Waste Processing Facility, contractor Parsons has recently submitted to the Department of Energy a cost-share proposal that’s believed to be the company’s ‘best and final offer’ for the startup work, WC Monitor has learned. The proposal will be sent to DOE […]

Babcock & Wilcox-led Nuclear Production Partners is giving up its fight for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex contract, the company said yesterday. NP2 three times protested the NNSA’s selection of Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security for the $22.8 billion contract, but the Government Accountability Office in late February turned away its last challenge of the […]

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is seeking companies interested in demolition work at the Old Town area of the Lab, posting a sources sought notice yesterday. The University of California may set aside the contract for small businesses “if a sufficient number of small businesses are pre-qualified,” according to the sources sought notice. “This project includes […]

URS has reached an agreement with shareholder JANA Partners, LLC, which owns slightly less than 10 percent of the company’s stock, to make several changes to its Board of Directors. Under the changes announced earlier this week, URS add  four candidates proposed by JANA Partners to its Board of Directors, effective March 27—Diane Creel, who […]

The Department of Energy issued a notice yesterday seeking qualifications 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. The procurement is being competed on an unrestricted basis, and DOE plans to issue a cost-reimbursable-type contract that will […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration at long last is moving to compete the Sandia National Laboratories management and operating contract, announcing yesterday that it was extending Lockheed Martin’s contract to run the lab for two years (with an option for a third) while it opens up the contract for competition. Lockheed Martin’s current contract to […]

The difficulties encountered to date in getting the Idaho Integrated Waste Treatment Unit up and running appear to have played a role in Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security’s win of the new Y-12/Pantex management contract, according to information the Government Accountability Office released yesterday. The IWTU’s impact on how the National Nuclear Security Administration evaluated the […]

A 19-page protest decision released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office sheds light on the GAO’s decision to reject the latest protest of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex contract by Babcock & Wilcox-led Nuclear Production Partners (NP2), including an evaluation of NP2’s cost savings that was central to the company’s wide-ranging protest. The protest […]

George Dials is resigning from Babcock & Wilcox, effective at the end of this month, Weapons Complex Morning Briefing has learned. Since late 2010, Dials has headed B&W Conversion Services, LLC, which is made up of B&W and URS and is responsible for operating the two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plants at the Department […]

URS yesterday named Bob McQuinn as the new president and project manager of Waste Isolation Pilot Plant contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership, demoting NWP head Farok Sharif to project manager of the TRU Waste Program. The management change was in response to recent incidents at WIPP, including a fire and radiation release last month. "To strengthen our […]

Mark Haub is taking over as Pro2Serve’s Chief Financial Officer/Treasure, the company said yesterday. Haub replaces Paul Martin, who retired in early March. Haub has more than 20 years of experience as a financial official. “Paul Martin succeeded in establishing the CFO role as a critical element of Pro2Serve’s continuing growth and success over the last […]

Babcock & Wilcox said yesterday that Gary Camper is being promoted to serve as Vice President for Programs, Contracts, Procurement and Business development of its Nuclear Operations Group. Camper is a 30-year veteran of B&W Nuclear Operations Group’s Lynchburg facility, where B&W said he has assumed management roles of “increasing responsibility in engineering, quality control […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration on Friday opened a procurement for facilities maintenance services at the Office of Secure Transportation and the agency’s Albuquerque Complex, issuing a draft Request for Proposals. The agency is seeking a small business to perform the work, which will take place in three locations: at OST headquarters in Albuquerque, at […]

Cabrera Services has added two new members to its board of directors, including a former head of the Army Corps of Engineers, the company announced yesterday. General Robert Flowers, former chief of engineers and commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Michael Morrison, current president of Matrix Capital Markets Group, will join […]

With only about two years remaining in the base period of Fluor-B&W Portsmouth’s contract for D&D of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, the Department of Energy is so far staying quiet as to whether it plans to exercise an available option period or look to recompete the contract. In remarks yesterday at the Waste Management […]

As the Department of Energy works on implementing a new rule counting some subcontracts toward small business goals,  officials say  it should have little impact on DOE prime contracting to small businesses. The appropriations bill passed in January allows DOE first tier subcontracts awarded by management and operating contractors to small and disadvantaged businesses to […]

The Department of Energy last week awarded a task order to Strata-G to collect data and perform characterization at Outfall 200, where a mercury water treatment facility is planned at Oak Ridge’s Y-12 National Security Complex. The company will gather data about the site of the proposed plant and deliver a sampling and analysis plan […]

Nearly 14 months since the National Nuclear Security Administration first selected Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security for its Y-12/Pantex consolidated management and operating contract, transition to the new contractor has resumed, NNSA spokeswoman Keri Fulton confirmed yesterday. However, Babcock & Wilcox-led Nuclear Production Partners—which three times protested the NNSA’s selection—declined comment yesterday on its plans, leaving […]

The Department of Energy Friday released a draft request for proposal for a small business procurement for laboratory analysis and testing services at Hanford’s 222-S laboratory. The Department is asking for comments and feedback by March 28. The work would be performed for DOE’s Office of River Protection. “The scope of this contract is to […]

Oak Ridge-based Restoration Services, Inc., has named Paul Clay as its new president, replacing company founder Staci Ferguson. Clay was previously RSI’s director of environment, safety, health and quality. Ferguson will continue on as vice president of corporate relations. “It was important for the owners, as we transitioned from a woman-owned to an employee-owned company, […]

Babcock & Wilcox recorded an increase in profits of $126.5 million during the fourth quarter of 2013 but offered a muted forecast for 2014 as it released its latest earnings report. While the company said it made a profit of $165.6 million during the fourth quarter of 2013, up from $39.1 million during the same […]