Contracts & Procurement

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/9/2014 The National Nuclear Security Administration has wrapped up negotiations with the Lockheed Martin-run Sandia Corporation on a two-year extension to its management and operating contract to run Sandia National Laboratories, but it hasn’t released any details of the contract. NNSA spokesman Josh McConaha confirmed late last week that the Sandia […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/9/2014 The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is pressing the National Nuclear Security Administration to not let oversight slip with transition activities to a new contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security at the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plants ongoing. In an April 30 letter to new NNSA Administrator Frank Klotz, DNFSB Chairman […]

NS&D Monitor 5/9/2014 Consolidated Nuclear Security this week revealed its plans for changing the benefits packages at the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plants and said the changes would help reduce costs and help sustain future operations at the National Nuclear Security Administration facilities. The incoming contractor at Y-12 and Pantex posted the plans on […]

NS&D Monitor 5/9/2014 Jury Awards Business $3.64m in Contract Dispute with Lab An Albuquerque District Court jury has awarded a New Mexico-based business $3.64 million in a case that pitted the company against Los Alamos National Laboratory contractor Los Alamos National Security, LLC, in a dispute over a contract originally awarded five years ago. Orion […]

NS&D Monitor 5/9/2014 Y-12 Voluntary Layoff Program Expanded Security was off-limits in the initial round of job reductions planned as part of the Voluntary Separation Program at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, but that has changed. Federal and contractor officials confirmed that the VSP has been expanded to include some security personnel at Y-12, although it […]

Owner of Occupational Med Contractor Arrested WC Monitor 5/2/2014 A co-owner of HPM Corp., which holds the Department of Energy contract to provide occupational medicine services at Hanford, has been arrested on suspicion of assault in the fourth degree, a gross misdemeanor. Grover Cleveland “Cleve” Mooers is accused in documents filed in Franklin County District […]

D&D Work May be Broken Out for Small Businesses Kenneth Fletcher WC Monitor 5/2/2014 As the Department of Energy moves forward with planning for a procurement for cleanup work at the Idaho site post-Fiscal Year 2015, DOE is considering combining the site’s two current cleanup contracts and separating out D&D work for small businesses, a […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 5/2/2014 Transportation, Operations and Professional Services (TOPS), which was raided by federal law enforcement agents earlier this year, has sold the waste transportation subcontract it had with URS-CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC (UCOR). UCOR spokesman Allen Schubert confirmed this week that Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based TFE Inc. had acquired the subcontract. “This acquisition […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 5/2/2014 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 in a notice issued April 30.  The new contract is being set-aside for small businesses, with the procurement to use a […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 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 […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 4/25/2014 The Department of Energy has asked the two teams bidding on the new Paducah deactivation contract to submit best-and-final offers, with responses due in early May. DOE is believed to be seeking “final proposal revisions” from the teams of Fluor-CB&I-LATA and AECOM-Stoller-Newport News to help resolve discrepancies between the two […]

Staff Reports NS&D Monitor 4/25/2014 With the transition of contractors at Y-12 and Pantex about a third of the way through, Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security President and CEO Jim Haynes has opened up more about plans and impacts and discussed some of the difficulties in what he’s termed the “mother of all transitions.” Haynes noted […]

Total Value of Proposed Contract Could Reach Approx. $120 Million Kenneth Fletcher NS&D Monitor 4/25/2014   In a new effort to continue to fund the American Centrifuge project, USEC is looking to serve as a subcontractor to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, though the Department of Energy has yet to give its approval. The proposed subcontract, […]

Reichert Replaces Dan Glenn, Who Was Bid by CNS But Was Subject of B&W Lawsuit Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 4/25/2014 Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security has replaced Dan Glenn as the operations manager of the Pantex Plant with another former Babcock & Wilcox official, revealing this week that Michelle Reichert would head up operations at Pantex […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 4/18/2014 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 this week, DOE is considering adding a […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 4/18/2014   With about two months left before proposals are due for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Brookhaven National Laboratory procurement, no clear-cut competitor to incumbent Brookhaven Science Associates has emerged and industry officials are questioning whether that will happen at all. Brookhaven is the first Office of Science […]

  Mike Nartker WC Monitor 4/11/2014 With operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant currently on hold, and the timetable for their resumption unclear, Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, is in discussions with the Department of Energy on modifying how it will be able to earn fee for operating the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project. ITG […]

Fluor-B&W Portsmouth Says It Can Save Money Mike Nartker WC Monitor 4/11/2014 Fluor-B&W Portsmouth, LLC, sought to defend its plan to self-perform some work at the Portsmouth D&D project currently being handled by Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) in a court filing late last week. Pro2Serve is suing FBP in federal court, accusing it of seeking […]

NS&D Monitor 4/11/2015 Incoming Y-12/Pantex contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security is continuing the earlier stages of its transition at the two nuclear weapons sites, gradually introducing the company’s philosophies, implementation plans and management team leaders. Earlier this week, CNS emphasized safety and posted its first "safety message" on its transition web site. It was called, "Respect […]

Sale to be Completed Within the Month Mike Nartker WC Monitor 4/11/2014 Advanced Technologies and Laboratories (ATL) has entered into an agreement to purchase DeNuke Services—a sale DeNuke Services President Fred Gardner said this week that he expects to complete within a month. “We’ve entered in a letter of intent and we’re selling all the […]

With acting National Nuclear Security Administration chief Bruce Held signaling a shift in M&O contracting across the weapons complex, industry officials gathered at the Nuclear Deterrence Summit last week suggested just taking aim at the large fees being paid might not be the answer to the agency’s problems.

Signaling a potential major change in the Obama Administration’s surplus plutonium disposition strategy, the National Nuclear Security Administration dispatched a consultant to the Savannah River Site this week to examine options for terminating Shaw AREVA MOX Services’ contract for construction of the MOX plant at the site, either as part of a shutdown of the project or as part of a new contracting strategy, NS&D Monitor has learned  

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 3/14/2014 As the procurement to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear laboratories moves to the next stage, at least three teams appear to have formed to go after the job, RW Monitor has learned. One team, led by B&W and including Battelle and the U.K. firm Cavendish Nuclear, publicly […]

A team led by AECOM has filed a challenge over the Department of Energy’s recent award of the new Strategic Petroleum Reserve management contract to Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations. 

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]