Contracts & Procurement

Celeritex, LLC—a joint venture of Project Services Group, LLC and DeNuke Contracting Services—has won the Department of Energy’s new contact to help prepare transuranic waste for shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for disposal. The new contract, which was set aside for small businesses, is worth up to $17.8 million and is set to […]

Leticia Barela has replaced Dan Saiz as the contracting officer on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s combined Y-12/Pantex management and operating contract procurement as Saiz shifts back to a full-time supervisory role with the agency’s M&O contracting group, NNSA spokesman Josh McConaha confirmed to NW&M Monitor. McConaha said Saiz had filled in as the contracting […]

A team led by Systematic Management Services is protesting a task order award to MELE Associates’ MAX3 Team under the NNSA’s technical services blanket purchase agreement. MELE was awarded a $2.3 million task order to provide support to the NNSA’s Office of Enterprise Project Management under the contract Aug. 14. Brian Gocial, a lawyer representing […]

More than four months after the original request, the Department of Energy has yet to resolve a dispute over the return of about $20 million in provisional fee paid to Salt Waste Processing Facility contractor Parsons. DOE first asked for the return of the fee in an April 10 letter, stating that Parsons was set […]

The DOE Office of Environmental Management held its second contract performance and management workshop in Washington, D.C., yesterday, bringing together DOE leadership with corporate executives from all of EM’s prime cleanup and construction contractors. In a statement, DOE said the goal of the workshop was to “identify opportunities related to EM’s goal to improve project, […]

The three bidders for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s combined Y-12/Pantex management and operating procurement submitted revised proposals for the contract yesterday. In the wake of the Y-12 security breach last month, the NNSA amended the Request for Proposals in the procurement to include protective force work at Y-12 and Pantex and give bidders wide […]

The Department of Energy appears to be on track to release a new Request for Proposals Friday for its stripped down Oak Ridge protective force contract. The agency yesterday released questions and answers on its draft performance work statement, signaling that there are no delays to plans to release the RFP on Friday. The majority […]

Fiscal Year 2011 appears to have been a very good year for CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. at Hanford, with the contractor having earned almost all of the available fee for base cleanup activities and Recovery Act-funded work. According to information the Department of Energy released yesterday, CHPRC earned approximately $8.533 million out of an […]

With Y-12 workers facing uncertainty with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s looming decision on the combined Y-12/Pantex procurement, B&W Y-12 Deputy General Manager Bill Klemm said yesterday the contractor has gotten through that “enormous challenge” by rallying around safety. “The words in this contract are not conducive to stability. So people are truly worried about […]

With numerous subcontract awards related to construction of the Uranium Processing Facility scheduled for Fiscal Year 2013, B&W Y-12 officials yesterday urged small businesses yesterday to initiate discussions with the contractor. “Now is the time to be talking to us about what your capabilities are to help us line you up with the package and […]

Contractors at Department of Energy sites are set to soon see more rapid payments under a new Obama Administration policy unveiled yesterday. While federal agencies typically have 30 days to pay prime contractors, DOE and other agencies have been directed to accelerate such payments to within 15 days of receiving proper documentation, with the aim […]

Bidders for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s combined Oak Ridge/Y-12/Pantex protective force contract now have a couple more hours to submit their proposals. The NNSA issued the first amendment to the procurement’s Request for Proposals late Friday, making minor adjustments to the solicitation. The changes included making proposals due by 12 p.m. Mountain Time on […]

MELE Associates has filed another protest of a task order awarded under the National Nuclear Security Administration’s technical services blanket purchase agreement, adding the July 16 complaint to a protest that it filed in May. Ken Martin, a lawyer representing MELE Associates, said he could not discuss the substance of the new protest because it […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is asking the three bidders for its combined Y-12/Pantex management and operating contract to revise their proposals by next week, industry officials with knowledge of the agency’s actions confirmed this week. In letters to teams led by Babcock & Wilcox, Bechtel and Fluor late last week, the NNSA supplied questions […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration released, and then abruptly cancelled, a solicitation seeking an executive recruiting firm to fill a senior executive service vacancy within the Department of Energy without ever clarifying what position it was trying to fill. DOE spokeswoman Niketa Kumar declined to identify what position was being filled, but confirmed it was […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration released another set of questions and answers for its combined Oak Ridge/Y-12/Pantex protective force contract yesterday, the third since it released a final Request for Proposals for the contract earlier this month. The NNSA also released a “summary of employee leave” to help bidders prepare their proposals. Bids are due […]

MELE Associates’ MAX3 team was awarded a $9 million task order contract to provide technical support to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation under the NNSA’s Technical Services Blanket Purchase Agreement Tuesday. The NNSA is currently recompeting the contract, and MELE is one of a handful of teams that have submitted […]

A number of company’s active in the weapons complex will hold third quarter earnings calls this week:  URS Corporation will release its second quarter 2012 earnings results Aug. 7, and host a conference call that day at 5 p.m. ET. The live webcast will be available at http://investors.urs.com. Babcock & Wilcox will release its second […]

Bidders for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s combined Oak Ridge/Y-12/Pantex protective force contract are getting an extra 10 days to complete proposals, though the extension does not appear to be related to the recent security breach at the Y-12 National Security Complex. The NNSA yesterday issued a second amendment to the Request for Proposals on […]

  Parsons has been given another week to resolve a dispute with the Department of Energy over the return of approximately $20 million in provisional fee paid for work on the Savannah River Site’s Salt Waste Processing Facility. In a May 31 letter, DOE originally gave Parsons until June 15 to “liquidate the debt” owed […]

The Energy Facility Contractors Group elected a new slate of officials to its Board of Directors at its annual meeting last week. Susan Siger from Bechtel was named as the new Chair, to replace Joe Yanek; while Juan Alvarez from the Idaho National Laboratory was named as Vice Chair to replace Stiger. Pat Smith from […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has signaled that it will recompete its Sandia National Laboratories management and operating contract, but former Lockheed Martin CEO Norm Augustine suggested yesterday that competition isn’t always in the nation’s best interests. Lockheed Martin has held the Sandia M&O contract since 1993, but is one of a handful of companies […]

The Department of Energy is gearing up to move forward with the planned recompete of the Portsmouth environmental technical services contract, with a draft Request for Proposals set to be issued in about a week, according to a notice released yesterday. The new contract will be set-aside for small businesses, with a size standard of […]

The Department of Energy yesterday officially launched a long-awaited research, development and demonstration program supporting USEC’s struggling American Centrifuge Project through a deal in which DOE will take title to USEC’s liability for $87.7 million in depleted uranium tails. In return, the company has agreed to a number of conditions that include new management for […]

At least six teams are believed to have submitted bids for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s technical services blanket purchase agreement. Bids for the contract were due by 1 p.m. yesterday, and NW&M Monitor has learned that teams led by TechSource, Longenecker & Associates, Navarro Research, Systematic Management Services, and Vector Resources are believed to […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration appears to be moving closer to releasing a final Request for Proposals for its combined Oak Ridge/Pantex protective force contract, posting another set of questions and answers yesterday. The agency has six times issued answers to questions from industry, addressing 135 separate questions. The latest answers dealt with the annual […]

Poor performance appears set to cost Savannah River Nuclear Solutions all of the fee it has earned to date for the Waste Solidification Building project at the Savannah River Site. In a lengthy and sharply written June 12 letter, obtained by NW&M Monitor, the National Nuclear Security Administration accused Fluor-led SRNS of being “negligent” in […]

The International Guards Union of America Local 3 and Oak Ridge protective force contractor WSI-Oak Ridge will begin negotiations today on a new collective bargaining agreement. IGUA’s CBA with WSI-OR at the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory expires Aug. 15, and its CBA at the Federal Office Building in Oak Ridge […]

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions is pushing back against criticism from the National Nuclear Security Administration that the Fluor-led contractor has been “negligent” in its management of the Waste Solidification Building project at the Savannah River Site. On June 12, as reported yesterday, the NNSA sent SRNS a strongly worded letter outlining a number of concerns […]

A round of layoffs to Parsons Infrastructure and Technology’s government group has claimed one of the key officials involved in the company’s successful bid for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Enterprise Construction Management Blanket Purchase Agreement. Willie Clark, a longtime executive at the company, was let go last week as part of the layoffs, NW&M […]