Contracts & Procurement

The National Nuclear Security Administration did itself a “tremendous disservice” by granting award term extensions to contractors that run Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories even though the contractors did not meet requirements to trigger the extensions, a senior Government Accountability Office official said yesterday at the Nuclear Deterrence Summit. GAO Assistant Director Allison […]

The Department of Energy has cancelled a solicitation seeking a small business to monitor the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant for its future viability. The Department posted the solicitation on Feb. 15, and on Feb. 21 posted an amendment cancelling the solicitation without providing an explanation. The Department’s Oak Ridge office, which handled the solicitation as […]

Hanford site services contractor Mission Support Alliance earned about 90 percent of its fee for Fiscal Year 2012, according to information recently released by the Department of Energy. MSA earned about $19.1 million out of $21.2 million available for the period from October 2011 through September 2012. An award fee scorecard noted a number of […]

Performance for Nevada National Security Site protective force contractor WSI dipped during the last eight months of Fiscal Year 2012, with the security contractor receiving a “very good” rating and 86.3 percent of its award fee in the first performance period of its new contract at the site. WSI-Nevada, a subsidiary of G4S Government Services, […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has extended the contracts of B&W-led teams that currently run the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex Plant through April 29, stretching the arrangements through the initial date that the Government Accountability Office could rule on protests of the agency’s consolidated contract award. The NNSA selected Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear […]

The Department of Energy is planning to release a draft Request for Task Proposals within 60 days for deactivation of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant under the nationwide unrestricted Indefinite Quantity/Indefinite Delivery contracts, according to a notice posted by the Department yesterday. As first reported in WC Monitor in October, the task would be the […]

Babcock & Wilcox reported yesterday an increase in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011. In the fourth quarter of 2012, B&W saw revenues of $865.3 million, an increase of $64.5 million, or 8.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011.”"GAAP earnings per share for the fourth quarter […]

Enviro Compliance Solutions Inc. has won a new contract to perform environmental sampling, monitoring services and analysis of ongoing cleanup activities at the West Valley Demonstration Project, the Department of Energy announced late last week. The contract is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity-type that’s set to run for three years with a total value of $4 […]

Hanford contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company released a Request for Proposals late last week for a tasks in support of the Decommissioning, Waste, Fuels And Remediation Services Project. The cost plus award fee contract includes work at a number of facilities, including the Waste Receiving and Processing Facility, the T Plant Complex, the Central […]

The Department of Energy and Salt Waste Processing Facility contractor Parsons are in the midst of contract negotiations at the Office of Environmental Management’s Consolidated Business Center this week. Parsons SWPF Project Manager Lou Jackson and Parsons Water and Infrastructure Group President Tony Leketa are at the CBC in Cincinnati this week with a negotiations […]

Oak Ridge cleanup contractor URS-CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC, did well in the second part of Fiscal Year 2012, according to a Department of Energy fee determination released yesterday that shows that UCOR earned about 90 percent of its available award fee. UCOR earned about $3.6 million out of $4 million in available award fee between […]

In one of its final evaluations for work in Oak Ridge, Department of Energy protective force contractor WSI earned nearly $1 million, and 93 percent of the at-risk fee for work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other DOE facilities during the second part of Fiscal Year 2012. WSI-Oak Ridge earned $568,379 in award fee […]

A senior official with a Department of Energy subcontractor that provides search-and-detection dog teams at the Y-12 National Security Complex and other DOE facilities in Oak Ridge was arrested in late February on charges of patronizing prostitution, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. Michael Terrance Hartmann, 60, of Knoxville, the field operations and training manager […]

The Department of Energy has begun conducting market research for a new prime laundry decontamination services contractor at Hanford. According to a sources sought notice issued late last week, the work would entail wet wash laundry and decontamination services for regulated Radiological Protective Clothing (RPC), non-regulated items, and respirator face pieces. If a solicitation is […]

After the recent acquisition of The Shaw Goup by CB&I, the company announced yesterday that former B&W executive Bob Cochran has been named president of Federal Services for CB&I’s Government Solutions group. Cochran was president of B&W Technical Services Group until late 2011 and most recently served as CEO and President of CTG, LLC. As […]

  The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking companies able to transport and permanently dispose of low-level radioactive waste not regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to a sources sought notice posted Friday. Transport of the material, which would be mainly soil and debris in volumes up to “tens of thousands of cubic yards,” […]

New Department of Energy Oak Ridge security contractor National Strategic Protective Services has hired former WSI-Oak Ridge official John Garrity as its director of planning and operations. Garrity was a key member of the protective force team at the Y-12 National Security Complex during last summer’s security breach, and he was at the heart of […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s administrative services blanket purchase agreement procurement appears to be on track despite an amendment that makes minor changes to the Request for Quotes. Bids on the contract are still due by 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time March 22, and the March 11 amendment makes no significant changes to the contract, making […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced the award or modification of tasks to three small, disadvantaged businesses yesterday under Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts awarded last summer. North Wind Solutions was awarded a $1 million time and materials task order to provide technical support to EM over a three year performance period, according […]

Local communities in the Carlsbad, N.M., area have selected AREVA to develop an interim storage site for spent nuclear fuel and possibly defense waste on a parcel of land in southeast New Mexico. The decision by the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance, a coalition of local governments that owns the land, comes after Fluor withdrew from consideration […]

The Department of Energy late last week issued a new amendment to the Request for Proposals for the new Portsmouth environmental technical services contract. The amendment contains revised language for some evaluation criteria, including the addition of, “DOE intends to consider work performed under traditional (non-M&O) cost reimbursement and fixed-price contracts that emphasize contract management, […]

With the due date for proposals looming, the Department of Energy has hired accounting firm KPMG to audit financial information and cost proposals included in bids for its Oak Ridge protective force contract, DOE informed bidders yesterday. The Department said that KPMG would conduct fieldwork audits starting the week of Oct. 22, three days after […]

Babcock & Wilcox’s Nuclear Operations Group said yesterday that it has been awarded more than $510 million in contracts to manufacture nuclear power systems for the Navy’s nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers. B&W said that $445 million was issued as options to a $2 billion contract awarded to its Nuclear Operations Group in 2010 and […]

The Department of Energy has broken off talks with Salt Waste Processing Facility contractor Parsons on a potential cost cap or fixed-price contract for the project, leaving SWPF without a clear path forward, WC Monitor has learned. The talks, which have been conducted directly between Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman and Parsons Chief Executive […]

With the threat of a protest now gone, new Oak Ridge security contractor National Strategic Protective Services released more details about its management team yesterday, revealing that former B&W Y-12 security official Steven Ross would serve as protective force director and Triple Canopy executive Kyle Lang would head up the new company’s business operations. NSPS […]

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, the Bechtel and University of California-led contractor that runs Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, earned a one-year contract extension as part of its recently released Fiscal Year 2012 Performance Evaluation Review, but only after the intervention of a top National Nuclear Security Administration official. Acting NNSA Administrator Neile Miller, who at […]

CB&I yesterday announced completion of its acquisition of The Shaw Group, which was approved by shareholders of both companies in December. CB&I announced in late July its plan to purchase Shaw in estimated to be worth about $3 billion. The acquisition involved CB&I paying about $46.00 per share of Shaw stock, which consisted of $41.00 […]

As the Department of Energy prepares for the likely return of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant from operator USEC later this year, it issued a Feb. 15 solicitation Feseeking a small business to monitor the future the plant for its future viability. “During the fiscal year, the contractor [subject matter experts (SME)] will continue on-site […]

B&W Technical Services Group has tapped Ken Camplin to serve as Vice President for Business Development, a B&W spokeswoman said late last week. Camplin replaces Randy Spickard, who retired from B&W earlier this month. Camplin previously held the position of B&W TSG Vice President for Operations, and will continue to hold that role in an […]

Fluor-B&W Portsmouth, LLC, appears to have received the equivalent of a “B” grade from the Department of Energy for its work at the Portsmouth D&D project in Fiscal Year 2012, with the contractor having earned approximately 86.5 percent of the fee available for the year. For FY 2012, FBP earned approximately $6.85 million out of […]