Contracts & Procurement

The National Nuclear Security Administration has established a new website for the procurement for the follow-on contract to provide environmental characterization and remediation services at the Nevada National Security Site. The procurement is still in the early stages, with NNSA having issued a sources sought notice in September to determine if the contract can continue […]

CB&I reported strong earnings in the third quarter of 2013 yesterday, reporting net income of $117.7 million, which includes after tax costs of $3.7 million related to the acquisition earlier this year of The Shaw Group. “CB&I had another successful quarter and continued to deliver growth in revenue and income from operations. Revenue was up […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is moving forward with a plan to scale back its Global Threat Reduction Initiative contracting plans, and it released a Request for Proposals for the $20 million small business opportunity yesterday. The RFP largely mirrors a draft released in August that includes a $14 million size standard and “freight transportation […]

The Department of Energy still is planning on releasing a Request for Proposals for its Brookhaven National Laboratory procurement in the first three months of 2014 despite delays brought about by the government shutdown earlier this month, according to Questions and Answers released by the Department yesterday. The Q&As contained few surprises, but the Department […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration selected Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security for its Y-12/Pantex management and operating contract Friday, but it’s likely to be several weeks before the agency begins transition to the new contractor. NNSA spokeswoman Keri Fulton said all three bidders for the contract agreed to the agency’s two-part open book debriefing process, which […]

The three bidders vying for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s combined Y-12/Pantex management and operating contract will each be debriefed on the agency’s selection of Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security on Nov. 15, NNSA spokeswoman Keri Fulton confirmed to NW&M Monitor. The debriefings would start the clock on a 10-day window for teams to protest the […]

USEC and the Department of Energy are at odds over the how to de-lease the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, according to a USEC financial filing posted this week. After ceasing operations at the plant this summer, in August USEC gave DOE its required two-year notice to give up its lease to the plant. But the […]

The Department of Energy is seeking feedback on draft documents recently released for a new procurement for technical and administrative support services for the operation and maintenance of Building 55 at the Denver Federal Center near Denver, Colo. The contract will cover facility management support, information resource management, classification/declassification activities, document and records management and […]

Babcock & Wilcox reported an increase in profits during the third quarter of 2013 as it was buoyed by a strong quarter from its Technical Services Group, according to quarterly earnings reported yesterday by the company. B&W said net-income during the third quarter of 2013 was $60.4 million (54 cents a share), which represented a […]

A Babcock & Wilcox-led team will be among three bidders in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex procurement that will receive debriefings from the agency on Friday, and B&W President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Ferland gave little away about the company’s thinking in a conference call with investors yesterday. “So the open item in […]

The Department of Energy yesterday awarded a task order to Waste Control Specialists to receive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The work is to dispose of 355 cubic yards of Class C Mixed Low-Level Waste that come from cleanup and remediation activities at LANL. The fixed price task order has a  $2,225,140 value, a […]

The Department of Energy has rejected a suggestion from some potential bidders on the new contract to manage the Oak Ridge Transuranic Waste Processing Center to remove a call for expertise with transuranic sludge processing equipment from a recently released sources sought notice. At issue is a provision in the sources sought notice asking companies […]

Lawmakers on a House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee yesterday pressed Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman about late adjustments to the evaluations of bidders on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12/Pantex contract, with one Republican suggesting that the changes don’t “smell right.” Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) pushed Poneman for answers on the subject, […]

Babcock Services, a subcontractor to Hanford cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation, filed suit against CHPRC this week for damages it claims came from CHPRC breaking its contract. The case centers on “CHPRC’s complete indifference to contractual obligations it agreed to undertake with Plaintiff [Babcock Services, Inc.], including the improper termination of a contract and […]

Portage late last week filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office over the Department of Energy’s recent award of the new Portsmouth environmental technical services contract to Restoration Services. Inc. The new contract is set to run for up to five years and is worth approximately $43 million. Portage declined to comment yesterday on […]

Interactive Technology Group, Inc. is challenging the DOE Richland Operations Office’s recent award of two new blanket purchase agreements to obtain business support services. The protest was filed with the GAO July 26 and made public yesterday. The GAO has until early November to make a decision. At issue are two new blanket purchase agreements […]

A second protest has been filed with the Government Accountability Office over the Department of Energy’s recent award of the new Portsmouth environmental technical services contract to Restoration Services Inc. Shawnee Environmental Technical Services Alliance, LLC, filed the protest July 29, and the GAO currently has until Nov. 6 to make a decision. Portage is […]

Strategic Management Solutions, LLC, today completes its transition to the Department of Energy’s new contract to provide support services for the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Project at the Paducah and Portsmouth sites. DOE awarded the contract to SMSI in May, after the company successfully challenged DOE’s earlier award to Navarro Research and Engineering. SMSI’s size […]

URS and Perma-Fix Environmental Services are each scheduled to announce their latest financial results this week. URS is scheduled to hold an investor call at 5 p.m. Eastern today to announce its 2013 second quarter results. More information can be found here. Perma-Fix is scheduled to hold an investor call to discuss its second quarter […]

New details have emerged on the Department of Energy’s latest plans to once again extend S.M. Stoller’s current contract to provide support services for DOE’s Office of Legacy Management as the Department continues to re-evaluate bids for the follow-on contract. While DOE said last week that it has provided Stoller with a notice of intent […]

Babcock & Wilcox reported yesterday a slight drop in income in the second quarter of 2013 compared to the same period last year. For the second quarter of 2013, B&W’s operating income was $98.7 million, down $11.4 million from the same quarter in 2012. The company’s Power Generation, Nuclear Energy and Technical Services segments reported […]

The Department of Energy’s recently released final Request for Task Proposals for deactivation of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant offered plenty of surprises for the teams lining up to bid on the work, including some issues that—if left unresolved—may force some companies to make tough bid/no-bid decisions. The contract, being bid under the Department of […]

All proposals are now in for a Request for Offers from the Department of Energy for the purchase of depleted uranium at the Paducah and Portsmouth sites and the potential use of Paducah facilities. DOE released the RFO on July 3 in an effort to seek use of the assets at the sites, and its […]

In another report criticizing National Nuclear Security Administration contractors for poor contract management, the Department of Energy Inspector General raised questions yesterday about how Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory handles its time and materials subcontracts. The IG said that the lab did not fully justify six of seven time and materials subcontracts that it reviewed, potentially […]

West Valley cleanup contractor CH2M HILL B&W West Valley, LLC, has awarded a $2.6 million contract to Butler Construction for building a pad to store vitrified high-level waste canisters at the site. The western New York firm has completed several projects at West Valley, including construction of the remote-handled waste facility, according to CHBWV. There […]

Los Alamos National Laboratory awarded three new master task order agreements for cleanup activities earlier this week. The winners of the new contracts, which are for environmental support services, were Navarro Research and Engineering, Portage and TerranearPMC. Details on the length and ceiling value of the new MTOAs were not available yesterday. In total, 11 […]

The Department of Energy has begun examining whether there are companies that hold GSA Schedule 899 capable of performing NEPA support services. DOE issued a sources sought notice earlier this week seeking information from interested companies, which have until Sept. 9 to respond. DOE is currently considering the use of multiple Blanket Purchase Agreements for […]

Slightly more than a week after the Department of Energy issued the final Request for Task Proposals for the new Paducah deactivation contract, Bechtel formally notified DOE yesterday that it is standing down its work on the bid, citing a number of concerns with specific provisions in the RTP, WC Monitor has learned. The concerns […]

The Department of Energy has extended the deadline for bids for the new support services contract for the Department’s Transportation Tracking and Communications System to Sept. 11, from a previous due date of Aug. 27. The extension was included in a brief amendment issued to the Request for Proposals for the new contract earlier this […]

The Department of Energy has decided to reverse course and allow parent company costs to be reimbursed on the new Paducah deactivation contract. The change was announced in a set of questions-and-answers issued late last week on the final Request for Task Proposal for the new contract. One potential bidder had questioned DOE’s initial decision […]