Contracts & Procurement

In another shakeup of the field of competitors for the new Paducah deactivation contract, URS is reportedly standing down its proposal activities, according to industry officials. URS was previously reported to be part of a team that included CH2M Hill with B&W as a subcontractor. URS is reportedly the third company holding an ID/IQ contract […]

The Government Accountability Office late last week denied two protests of the Army Corps of Engineers award of a contract for cleanup of the Maywood site. The Corps awarded the contract in May to Cabrera Services and CB&I, which prompted protests from two teams—Maywood Closure Company, LLC, and a team of Terranear and EnergySolutions. Those […]

With no sign on the horizon of the Department of Energy completing a final Fiscal Year 2012 fee determination for one of its main cleanup contractors—CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co.—a set of DOE letters Weapons Complex Monitor obtained yesterday through the Freedom of Information Act helps provide some insight into the Hanford contractor’s fee performance for […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has scaled back its Global Threat Reduction Initiative contracting plans to reflect trimmed down future budgets, and yesterday it released a draft Request for Proposals for international nuclear material removal work with a ceiling of $20 million. That’s $80 million less than the ceiling for the agency’s last GTRI contracting […]

The Department of Energy anticipates releasing this week a draft Request for Task Proposals for the new environmental monitoring and facility D&D contract at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site, according to a notice issued yesterday. The procurement is set to be conducted under DOE’s set of national small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity […]

Portage is withdrawing its protest to the Government Accountability Office over the Department of Energy’s decision to award the new Portsmouth environmental technical services contract to Restoration Services Inc., Weapons Complex Morning Briefing has learned. The move comes after Portage learned more about DOE’s decision to award the new contract to RSI, according to industry […]

The Department of Energy yesterday awarded a $1.29 million task order to Waste Control Specialists for disposal of mixed low-level waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory. “The work to be performed under this task order includes the receipt and disposal of 207 cubic yards of Class C Mixed Low-Level Waste,” said a DOE release, which […]

One day after indicating it was keeping a clause on liquidated damages that had been opposed by some contractors in the Request for Task Proposals for the new Paducah deactivation contract, the Department of Energy announced late last week that it would remove the provision. In a notice published Sept. 6, DOE said it had […]

The Department of Energy yesterday issued for industry comment the draft Request for Task Proposals for the new environmental monitoring and D&D contract at the Energy Technology Engineering Center site (ETEC) in California. Among the areas where DOE is looking for input is the “important discriminating factors” that should be used in making an award […]

The Department of Energy yesterday posted its plans to launch a small business procurement for environmental characterization and remediation.  A team of Navarro Research and Engineering and INTERA has held the environmental characterization and remediation contract at Nevada since 2009. For a follow-on contract the Department is considering a cost plus award fee contract with […]

The Department of Energy now appears set to be able to move forward with transition for the new Portsmouth environmental technical services contract, as two protests that had been filed over the award with the Government Accountability Office are coming to an end. Shawnee Environmental Technical Services Alliance, LLC, is withdrawing its protest after learning […]

Salmon Group Inc. has won a new contract to provide administrative support services to the Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office, according to a notice published yesterday on the FedBizOpps Web site. The new contract, which was competed as an 8(a) small business set-aside, is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity-type contract with firm fixed-price task orders. […]

The Department of Energy could improve its procedures to avoid awarding contracts to companies with tax delinquencies, according to a DOE Inspector General report released yesterday. Procedures in place rely on contractor self-certification, since contracting officers are not permitted to access Internal Revenue Service files. “We identified instances in which required offeror representations and certifications […]

The Department of Energy provided yesterday what some may say are among the most important details of the planned follow-on cleanup contract for the Nevada National Security Site—its term and value.  According to a revised sources sought notice, the new contract is set to have a ceiling value of $90-130 million over a potential five-year […]

The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a protest filed over the Department of Energy Richland Operations Office’s award of two blanket purchase agreements for business support services to Corporate Allocations Services, Inc., and Longenecker & Associates, Inc. The protest was filed in late July by Interactive Technology Group, Inc., and it remains unclear whether DOE […]

The Department of Energy took a small step toward competing the Brookhaven National Laboratory contract yesterday, unveiling a website for the procurement. DOE has not released any information about its plans for the contract since issuing a sources sought notice in April, but it is believed to be crafting a draft Request for Proposals that […]

URS said late last week that it does not plan to conduct any significant acquisitions in the near-term and instead will look to return money to shareholders and to pay down company debt. The URS Board of Directors has approved capital allocation priorities that will look to return at least $500 million to URS shareholders […]

Bechtel National earned slightly less than half of the fee available for its work at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant in the first half of this year, according to information the Department of Energy released yesterday. Out of an available $6.3 million, Bechtel National earned 49.6 percent, approximately $3.12 million. Bechtel National’s fee performance for […]

The Small Business Administration denied an appeal on Monday to its size standard challenge decision from July concerning the awarding of the Army Corps of Engineers’ FUSRAP Maywood clean up site to Cabrera Services. The SBA stated that Cabrera Services qualified as a small business. Cabrera Services President Kim Nelson said in an email to […]

A team led by Fluor has won the Department of Energy’s new contract to manage the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The contract is worth $1.46 billion and is set to run for up to 10 years, with a five-year base period and a five-year option period, according to a DOE release issued yesterday. Fluor Federal Petroleum […]

The Department of Energy plans to release a Request for Proposals for its Brookhaven National Laboratory contract competition “in the January-through-March 2014 timeframe,” the Department said yesterday as it announced that it was seeking Expressions of Interest from companies interested in the procurement. Expressions of Interest are due by 5 p.m. Oct. 2, and an […]

The U.S. Department of Energy Idaho Operations awarded a contract of a half million dollars to Rand Corporation yesterday for continued support of a white paper the company put together on the creation of a possible new used nuclear fuel and high-level waste management organization, according to a notice yesterday. The notice said the white […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science is seeking small businesses able to provide technical support services to a number of site offices, according to a sources sought notice posted yesterday. DOE anticipates the contract to be a cost-plus award fee or a time-and-materials contract with a one-year base period and four one-year option periods […]

USEC filed a complaint late last week in Federal court claiming that the Department of Energy must reimburse the company more than $35 million for work between 2003 and 2011 that it says was not properly reimbursed.  “The contract services work included work performed by USEC under contract with DOE to maintain and prepare the […]

Early last month, the National Nuclear Security Administration said it would ask bidders for its combined Y-12/Pantex contract for more information about their cost savings proposals, but with nearly a month having elapsed—and a new energy secretary in office—speculation has grown that the agency could be changing its plans. Asked yesterday about the path forward […]

Vista Engineering Technologies has acquired the key components of S.A. Technologies’ Remote Systems & Services Division. The acquisition of key personnel and intellectual property “combine synergistically with Vista Engineering’s technical depth and intimate knowledge of the weapons complex, nuclear industry, and environmental remediation challenges. This will allow Vista Engineering to expand upon the high quality […]

The Department of Energy has asked bidders for its contract for support services for the Office of Legacy Management to extend their proposals to the end of 2013. The move comes as part of its corrective action that the Department is taking after two protests were filed with the Government Accountability Office following the award […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is planning to expand the use of direct federal contracting for capital projects, and Acquisition and Project Management chief Bob Raines said yesterday that the agency is expecting 40 percent of its major projects to be performed outside its management and operating contractors over the next five years. Currently, two […]

Babcock & Wilcox has named Mark Carano as a senior vice president and chief corporate development officer, the company said yesterday. Carano previously served as the managing director for investment banking for Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Global Diversified Industrials and Services Group. B&W said Carano will head up its corporate strategy and merger and […]

Hanford cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. last week said it is changing its new subcontracting strategy to self-perform more work than had been previously planned. Last week CHPRC notified ENREP, Inc. and East Tennessee Materials and Energy Corporation that it will not be subcontracting their scope after their contracts expire on Sept. 30. […]