Contracts & Procurement

Michael Lempke, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s associate principal deputy administrator, will remain the Source Selection Authority for the agency’s combined Y-12/Pantex management procurement as it reopens the highly coveted contract competition, NNSA spokesman Josh McConaha confirmed to NW&M Monitor. Several key decisions by Lempke were challenged by teams protesting the lucrative Y-12/Pantex contract, but […]

Los Alamos National Laboratory yesterday officially announced the award of a Master Task Order Agreement to three small businesses—Terranear PMC, Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., and Adelante Consulting, Inc. The awards, which were first reported by WC Monitor last month, cover technical services for the lab’s Environmental Programs directorate, which could total $150 million. The […]

A coalition of activist groups are opposing the Department of Energy’s proposed shipment of liquid highly enriched uranium from Canada’s Chalk River Laboratories to the Savannah River Site, planning a protest yesterday outside the National Transportation Stakeholder’s Forum in Buffalo, New York. The 23,000 liters of material would be downblended at Savannah River’s H-Canyon facility […]

Babcock & Wilcox’s Nuclear Operations Group has been awarded a $366 million contract to provide nuclear material for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Naval Reactors program. The material will be used in the assembly of nuclear propulsion components at the company’s Lynchburg, Va., facility. The company said $75 million of the contract has been allocated […]

Bechtel Corp. experienced an increase in revenue in 2012 compared to the previous year, but also saw a significant decrease in new awards, the company announced late last week. For 2012, Bechtel had revenue of $37.9 billion, up 15 percent from the previous year, according to a company release. Last year, Bechtel had new contract […]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight is gearing up to hold a hearing on the Department of Energy’s major cleanup contracts next month. In preparation for the June 20 hearing, the panel has sent letters seeking a variety of information to DOE’s Office of Environmental Management and a […]

The pending departure of acting National Nuclear Security Administration chief Neile Miller will leave a void atop the agency’s senior leadership structure, but it won’t impact the NNSA’s Y-12/Pantex procurement, NNSA spokesman Josh McConaha told NW&M Monitor. The agency said on May 8 that it would seek more information “in the coming weeks” from bidders […]

The Department of Energy yesterday released for industry comment the draft Request for Task Proposal for the new Paducah deactivation contract. The draft RTP envisions a three-year cost-plus-award-fee contract with firm-fixed price elements. Work to be performed under the contract will include facility deactivation, surveillance and maintenance and utility operations; deactivation, decontamination and demolition; the […]

Bidders on the Department of Energy’s new contract to provide environmental technical services at the Portsmouth site are soon set to get insight on the results of their proposals. By the end of May, DOE expects to either make an award decision or announce that a competitive range has been established, Department spokesman Bill Taylor […]

Paducah cleanup contractor LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky, LLC, is suspending, for now, plans for a significant workforce restructuring thanks to Congress’ recent approval of a Department of Energy request to shift funds among cleanup projects. Earlier this month, LATA Kentucky said it would have to look to eliminate 145 positions, out of the company’s […]

Top-level management changes are in the works at the Department of Energy’s two main tank waste contractors, URS confirmed late yesterday. Mike Johnson is set to retire at the end of June as president of URS-led Washington River Protection Solutions, the tank farms contractor at Hanford. Johnson is set to be replaced by Dave Olson, […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has extended the existing contracts of Babcock & Wilcox-led teams at Y-12 and Pantex through the end of July, giving the agency time to seek additional cost savings information from teams bidding for the combined management and operating contract of both sites. The contracts at the sites had previously been […]

URS has created a new position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, to be filled by Bill Lingard. Lingard previously served as president of URS’ oil and gas division, and is the former president and CEO of Flint Energy Services, which URS acquired last year. In his new role, Lingard will report to […]

The Department of Energy has extended the due date to June 4 for responses to a request for information regarding a potential contract for a transportation tracking system to facilitate waste shipments between sites and to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The Department released the RFI earlier this month with an original due date of […]

Newport News Shipbuilding announced yesterday that it has appointed John Temple as vice president of contracts management for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions. Temple had previously served as director of contracts administration at SRNS, the Savannah River management-and-operations contractor comprised of Fluor, Honeywell and Newport News. In the last few months, the SRNS reporting structure was […]

International Isotopes Inc. and Advanced Process Technology Systems, LLC have formed a joint venture and yesterday announced they submitted a response to the Department of Energy’s Feb. 7 request for Expression of Interest for the operation of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant facilities and utilization of DOE’s depleted uranium hexafluoride. "We are pleased to have the […]

The Department of Energy has confirmed the award of a new contract to a team led by Portage of a contract to provide support services for the Office of Legacy Management, posting a notice stating that it will total about $249.5 million dollars over the course of five years running from April 2013 to April […]

SAIC has been awarded a contract that could be worth as much as $228 million to help streamline Sandia National Laboratories’ information technology services. The contract has a five-year base period with one two-year option, and under the contract, SAIC will provide mission-specific IT research, development and integration of capabilities while  providing support for central […]

The Department of Energy late last week awarded both EnergySolutions and Waste Control Specialists fixed-price unit rate Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity multiple-award contracts for the permanent disposal of low-level and mixed low-level waste. The contracts would run for five years and include Contract Line Item Numbers for federal waste streams including: Class A, B and C […]

A challenge to a recent award to Navarro Research and Engineering of a new task order for support services to the Depleted Hexafluoride Conversion Project claims that in recent years reports show Navarro earned above the small business limit in the solicitation.  The size standard for the procurement awarded to Navarro in late March was […]

  Los Alamos National Laboratory has made at least two awards for Master Task Order Agreement 4—To Navarro Research and Engineering and to TerranearPMC, WC Monitor has learned. The $150 million multiple award contract covers technical support services at the site.  

The Department of Energy has released more details on its deactivation contract for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, including plans for it to replace the work cleanup contractor LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky, LLC, when its contract runs out. The Department is developing the procurement in preparation for the imminent return of the facility to […]

The Small Business Administration yesterday notified Navarro Research and Engineering that it has determined the company does not meet the small business size standard in the recent award of a new task order for support services to the Depleted Hexafluoride Conversion Project. The determination comes after the Department of Energy awarded the contract to Navarro […]

The clock for a possible protest on the Department of Energy’s recent award of the new Legacy Management support contract has begun ticking, with debriefs having largely wrapped up late last week. It remains to be seen whether any of the unsuccessful bidders will choose to challenge Portage’s win of the new contract, which was […]

The Department of Energy’s Inspector General continued to press the Department to strengthen subcontract auditing practices for its management and operating contractors, noting in a report released yesterday that more than $906 million worth of subcontracts from Fiscal Year 2010 to FY 2012 had not been audited up to adequate standards. Los Alamos National Laboratory […]

The consulting firm Longenecker & Associates has named James Turi as its new Vice President for Science and Technology programs, effective yesterday. Turi joined L&A in May 2010, and before then served as manager of the Department of Energy’s site office at the Jefferson Lab. He replaces Milton Johnson, who has become Vice President Emeritus, […]

Lanky, 85-year-old Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. Attorney General during the LBJ administration, traveled from New York to Knoxville to argue nuclear policy yesterday on behalf of protesters facing serious federal charges for breaking into the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant last summer. He praised their work and said they did the U.S. a favor in […]

Navarro Research and Engineering yesterday appealed a Small Business Administration determination that the company does not meet the small business standard for a recently awarded task order for support services to the Depleted Hexafluoride Conversion Project. After receiving size standard challenges from two companies, last week the SBA determined that the company did not meet […]

Challenges have been filed with the Government Accountability Office and the Small Business Administration for the recent award of a contract for support services to the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management to Portage. The SBA yesterday received a size standard protest from a team of Wastren Advantage, Inc. and Stoller, according to SBA […]

Parsons has made some changes to its management team at the Salt Waste Processing Facility Project, removing Integration Manager Charles Hanson from the project and moving some SWPF managers to focus on other projects. The decision comes after the Department of Energy made its own management change at the project, late last week officially naming […]