Contracts & Procurement

More than a year after the evaluation period came to an end, the Department of Energy has completed its Fiscal Year 2012 fee determination for Hanford cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. Out of an available $10.4 million in fee tied to performance measures, CHPRC earned $4.49 million, according to information DOE released yesterday. […]

Babcock & Wilcox-led Nuclear Production Partners has renewed its challenge of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex contract competition, protesting the agency’s procurement actions for the third time yesterday. NPP twice previously challenged the NNSA’s decision, first in January when the agency initially selected Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security and again this summer when the NNSA […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has begun seeking comment on a draft Request for Proposals for the new Nevada National Security Site environmental program services contract. The new contract is being set-aside for small businesses, and will have 31 contract line item numbers (CLINs) addressing six different areas—labor, award fee, travel, equipment, material/supplies and transition. […]

A team led by Jacobs and Fluor will decide today whether or not to join a Babcock & Wilcox-led team in protesting the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex procurement. The B&W team, known as Nuclear Production Partners, last week protested the NNSA’s selection of Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security, and because they did so within five […]

There will be only one team protesting the National Nuclear Security Administration’s latest Y-12/Pantex award after a Jacobs/Fluor team yesterday decided against challenging the agency’s latest selection. The Jacobs/Fluor team, known as Integrated Nuclear Production Solutions, initially joined a B&W-led team in protesting the NNSA’s selection of Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security in January, but after […]

The incumbent team of INTERA and Navarro Research and Engineering  appears likely to split up on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s follow-on contract for environmental characterization and remediation at the Nevada National Security Site, WC Monitor has learned. The team has held the contract since 2009 as Navarro Nevada Environmental Services, LLC. The current contract […]

The Department of Energy should improve management of its Mentor-Protégé Program, states a DOE Inspector General report released yesterday finding that some small businesses in the program did not need its assistance. For example, many small businesses had already received many Federal awards before joining the program, and some agreements lasted for “excessive” durations, the […]

B&W has officially announced its intent to compete for the new contract to manage Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s Chalk River nuclear laboratories in a team with Battelle and the U.K. firm Cavendish Nuclear. The team was unveiled at a reception held in Petawawa, Ontario, on Nov. 19. “We believe this team has the vast […]

The Department of Energy has begun conducting market research for its upcoming procurement for new cleanup contracts at the Idaho site once the current ones expire at the end of Fiscal Year 2015. Late last week, DOE issued a request for information seeking “feedback from contractors and other interested parties regarding options for innovative approaches […]

CH2M Hill is reorganizing its corporate structure as new Chief Executive Officer Jacqueline Hinman prepares to take over on Jan. 1, WC Monitor has learned. The company will be organized into five markets—water, transportation, energy, environmental/nuclear, and facilities—each headed by an executive who will report directly to Hinman. Chris Shea, who currently heads CH2M Hill’s […]

The federal government filed a civil lawsuit late last week against Washington Closure Hanford, accusing it of falsely claiming credit for awarding small business subcontracts worth millions of dollars. In three subcontracts that Washington Closure used to meet requirements for small businesses, including women-owned small businesses, the businesses did not do a substantial portion of […]

Mark Barth is set to begin today serving as Idaho Treatment Group’s new Business Services Director. He replaces Norm Sandlin, who retired from ITG this summer. Barth last served as Associate Director of Business Services at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and has previously served as Director of Infrastructure at the Y-12 National Security Complex; and […]

The Department of Energy is considering combining the infrastructure support services contracts for the Portsmouth and Paducah sites, according to a sources sought notice posted yesterday for the Portsmouth contract.  The work is currently being performed under two separate contracts, and DOE last month released a sources sought notice for the Paducah work. The Portsmouth […]

Could a $35.5 million mathematical error sink the National Nuclear Security Administration’s latest Y-12/Pantex award? That’s one of the issues highlighted in a wide-ranging protest of NNSA’s most recent Y-12/Pantex award by Babcock & Wilcox-led Nuclear Production Partners. NW&M Monitor obtained a redacted version of NP2’s latest protest, which was filed last month and details […]

The Department of Energy has extended the due date for responses to a request for information for acquisition planning at the Idaho site from Dec. 20 to Jan. 3, according to a notice posted Friday. The Department is currently in the initial planning stages for follow on cleanup contracts at Idaho once the two current […]

Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council workers for Hanford tank farms contractor Washington River Protection Solutions approved a collective bargaining agreement late last week by a vote of 290 to 239. The 650 workers had been given a choice of approving the proposed agreement or giving their authorization to proceed to a possible strike. It was […]

None of the cost savings proposals submitted by the three bidders in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex contract competition were judged to reach the 80 percent mark for cost feasibility, according to protest documents obtained by NW&M Monitor that raise questions about the likelihood of savings on the contract merger being realized. The Government […]

A draft Request for Proposals for the new contract to manage Hanford’s 222-S Laboratory is set to be issued within the next “15 to 30 days,” the Department of Energy said yesterday. The new contract is being set-aside for small businesses, and is expected to be “a hybrid contract that includes fixed provide with award […]

The Department of Energy is extending Mission Support Alliance’s contract for three years to provide infrastructure and site services at Hanford. MSA, comprised of Lockheed Martin Integrated Technology, LLC, Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., and WSI, is nearing the end of its initial five-year contract period, awarded in 2009. DOE has granted the first of two […]

A Babcock & Wilcox-led team protesting the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex award is alleging that Consolidated Nuclear Security, the Bechtel-led group that was awarded the contract, was allowed to alter its proposal earlier this year after the agency sought additional cost information from the three teams bidding for the contract. B&W’s Nuclear Production Partners […]

Savannah River Site security contractor WSI-SRS earned about 88 percent of its available award fee in the second half of Fiscal Year 2013, or about $2.4 million out of the $2.7 million available, according to documents the Department of Energy released yesterday. The contractor’s performance in the April 1 to Sept. 30 period was an […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration picked five small business-led teams yesterday for its management, organizational and administrative services blanket purchase agreement. The agency notified team leads BCS, Incorporated; CNI Technical Services; Miracle Systems, LLC; GEM Technology International, Corp.; and Longenecker & Associates that they were selected out of nine bidders for the umbrella ordering agreement, […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries late last week completed the acquisition of S.M. Stoller. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but according to a company release, Stoller will be a wholly owned subsidiary of HII and operate under its Newport News Shipbuilding division. “With this strategic acquisition, Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) is positioned for expanded […]

Delayed by the government shutdown in October, an informational meeting for the Brookhaven National Laboratory procurement has been rescheduled for Jan. 30. The meeting and windshield tour of the laboratory will begin at 1 p.m. at the laboratory, and is expected to last about four hours. An agenda for the meeting has been posted on […]

Oak Ridge cleanup contractor URS-CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC, earned about 90 percent of its available award fee in the period from April through September 2013, receiving about $3.11 million out of a total of $3.43 million. “During this six-month performance rating period, UCOR has done a very good job executing the scope under the East […]

West Valley cleanup contractor CH2M Hill B&W West Valley, LLC, earned about 60 percent of its available award fee in the period from the beginning of March through the end of August 2013, netting a total of $200,000 out of $331,178 available. According to an award fee determination scorecard the Department of Energy posted recently, […]

The Department of Energy late last week issued a final Request for Task Proposals for the new Energy Technology Engineering Center environmental monitoring contract. Among the changes in the final RTP from previously issued drafts, according to DOE, is a consolidation of non-radiological facility D&D activities from three contract line items (CLINs) to one CLIN; […]

Savannah River site management and operating contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions earned 84 percent of its total available award fee in Fiscal Year 2013, netting about $47 million out of $56 million available. The contractor did best in its Office of Environmental Management Programs, earning about $30.7 million, or 96 percent of the fee available. […]

Savannah River liquid waste contractor Savannah River Remediation earned 95 percent of its total available award fee in Fiscal Year 2013, or about $29.7 million out of $31.4 million available. “SRR has provided safe, timely, and cost-effective management and execution of the Liquid Waste program at the U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River site in […]

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 yesterday 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 considering just calling time […]