Contracts & Procurement

A group of contractor executives is set to meet today with officials from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management to discuss efforts to improve project and contract management. The meeting, being held at DOE headquarters, is intended to discuss the various factors that challenge EM’s successful completion of projects. “EM leadership routinely communicates […]

Mott MacDonald announced yesterday that Andrew Taylor will take over as a projects director in the company’s program and commercial management team. Taylor will work on nuclear decommissioning projects and new nuclear power station construction along with Paul Roberts, the nuclear program director, the company said.  “Andrew is a great addition to our team and […]

Carol Johnson has joined the strategic advisory board of the consulting firm Longenecker & Associates. Johnson previously served as President of Washington Closure Hanford until her retirement from URS at the end of last year. “Carol has a proven track record in improving organizations to make them successful, and has experience throughout the DOE complex. […]

Navarro Research and Engineering is planning this week to file a new challenge to the Department of Energy’s recent decision to award the Office of Legacy Management support services contract to Portage for a second time. Navarro’s decision follows a move earlier this month by a team of Wastren Advantage and S.M. Stoller to file […]

The Government Accountability Office will decide this week on a Babcock & Wilcox-led protest of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex award. The GAO has until Feb. 28—Friday—to make its long-awaited decision in the latest chapter of the procurement. The NNSA has twice awarded the contract to Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security, but B&W-led Nuclear Production […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has dispatched a consultant to the Savannah River Site in recent days to examine options for terminating Shaw AREVA MOX Services’ contract for construction of the MOX plant at the site, according to officials with knowledge of the project. NNSA yesterday declined to comment, but the consultant is believed to be […]

The next step in the Canadian government’s procurement for a contract to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear laboratories is still experiencing delays. There had been some expectation that the Request for Response Evaluation, the next step in the process, would be issued last week, but that proved premature as the government continues to […]

Bill Lingard has resigned from his position as URS President and Chief Operating Officer, effective Feb. 10. URS announced Lingard’s resignation along with the release of the company’s preliminary Fiscal Year 2013 financial results, which came in below expectations. “We are extremely disappointed with the Company’s fourth quarter financial performance, which fell significantly short of […]

Large fees for contractors managing the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear weapons laboratories might be a thing of the past, acting NNSA Administrator Bruce Held said yesterday at the Nuclear Deterrence Summit. In response to questions at the sixth annual summit, Held called the “creeping privatization” of the national laboratories “unwise” and suggested the agency […]

URS is looking to move its Global Management and Operations Services unit from its Energy and Construction division to its Federal Services division, Weapons Complex Monitor has learned. URS’ GMOS unit is responsible for the company’s work in the Department of Energy marketplace, as well as in the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority market., Many of […]

LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky, LLC, the cleanup contractor for the Paducah site, earned approximately 90 percent of its available fee for Fiscal Year 2013, according to information Weapons Complex Monitor obtained yesterday. In total, LATA Kentucky earned approximately $3.02 million out of an available $3.37 million. The contractor’s fee included $1.80 million for completing […]

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, officials said at an informational meeting last week. DOE released documents from the industry day this week, revealing the role that will be played by […]

DUF6 Project contractor B&W Conversion Services, LLC, earned 87 percent of its available award and incentive fee in Fiscal Year 2013, according to information released yesterday by the Department of Energy. The contractor earned $1.88 million out of $2.16 million in available award fee. “The contractor met the majority of performance goals and objectives for […]

A Government Accountability Office hearing on a Babcock & Wilcox-led protest of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex award stretched into its third day yesterday, NW&M Monitor has learned. It’s unclear whether the hearing wrapped up yesterday or will continue, but the length of the inquiry has surprised some industry officials, including one who suggested […]

Portage earned 96 percent of its available award fee in Fiscal Year 2013 for its work on the Moab uranium mill tailings remediation project in Utah, earning about $1.1 million in award fee out of $1.14 million available, according to information recently made public. “The contractor met the majority of performance goals and objectives for […]

Fluor-B&W Portsmouth, LLC, the D&D contractor for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, earned approximately 75 percent of the fee available for Fiscal Year 2013—$12 million out of an available $16 million, according to information Weapons Complex Monitor obtained this week. FBP’s latest fee determination, outlined in a Jan. 31 letter from Bill Murphie, head of the […]

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 day-to-day operations,” according to a Bechtel […]

A Government Accountability Office hearing on Babcock & Wilcox’s protest of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex procurement remains a possibility, NW&M Monitor has learned. Babcock & Wilcox-led Nuclear Production Partners has pushed for a hearing in its third protest of the NNSA’s award to Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security, but the GAO has not made […]

West Valley Demonstration Project cleanup contractor CH2M Hill B&W West Valley, LLC, earned about 31 percent of the total award fee available from Aug. 29, 2012 through Feb. 28, 2013, according to an award fee determination scorecard recently posted by the Department of Energy. The contractor earned $100,000 out of $327,427 in available award fee […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration yesterday released a final request for proposals for the follow-on environmental characterization and remediation contract for the Nevada National Security Site. The final RFP includes few major changes from the latest draft version, though unlike earlier versions it makes transition costs a firm-fixed price contract line item. The contract includes […]

Eleven Pantex security guards have been fired in connection with a “sick-out” earlier this month and contractor B&W Pantex is charging the Pantex Guards Union with unfair labor practices, according to a complaint filed last week with the National Labor Relations Board. B&W Pantex filed the complaint with the NLRB Jan. 23, suggesting that the […]

S.M. Stoller Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has hired Jeffery Baker to serve as assistant vice president, effective Feb. 10. Baker currently serves as “deputy director of the project management coordination office” for the Department of Energy, as well as within the leadership team of the Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration yesterday 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 can be found on the NNSA’s web site). B&W Y-12, still working to repair its image after the July […]

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 Monday. The hearing was supposed to take place yesterday, but Ralph White, the GAO’s managing associate general counsel, confirmed that it had been delayed. White did […]

A Government Accountability Office hearing on Babcock & Wilcox’s protest of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex procurement remains a possibility, NW&M Monitor has learned. Babcock & Wilcox-led Nuclear Production Partners has pushed for a hearing in its third protest of the NNSA’s award to Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security, but the GAO has not made […]

West Valley Demonstration Project cleanup contractor CH2M Hill B&W West Valley, LLC, earned about 31 percent of the total award fee available from Aug. 29, 2012 through Feb. 28, 2013, according to an award fee determination scorecard recently posted by the Department of Energy. The contractor earned $100,000 out of $327,427 in available award fee […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration yesterday released a final request for proposals for the follow-on environmental characterization and remediation contract for the Nevada National Security Site. The final RFP includes few major changes from the latest draft version, though unlike earlier versions it makes transition costs a firm-fixed price contract line item. The contract includes […]

Eleven Pantex security guards have been fired in connection with a “sick-out” earlier this month and contractor B&W Pantex is charging the Pantex Guards Union with unfair labor practices, according to a complaint filed last week with the National Labor Relations Board. B&W Pantex filed the complaint with the NLRB Jan. 23, suggesting that the […]

S.M. Stoller Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has hired Jeffery Baker to serve as assistant vice president, effective Feb. 10. Baker currently serves as “deputy director of the project management coordination office” for the Department of Energy, as well as within the leadership team of the Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration yesterday 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 can be found on the NNSA’s web site). B&W Y-12, still working to repair its image after the July […]