Contracts & Procurement

S.M. Stoller is set to get an extension of up to 12 months on its current contract to provide mobile loading services for transuranic waste at various generator sites, according to a Department of Energy notice issued late last week. The extension is set to run for a base period of six months, from May […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has released the first set of Fiscal Year 2011 Performance Evaluation Reviews under a new policy that allows the contractor report cards to be shared with the public. The Department of Energy earlier this year reversed a policy that had kept the reviews hidden, and reviews for six NNSA contractors […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has selected a team led by Parsons to help beef up its project management portfolio, awarding its Enterprise Construction Management Services contract to the firm yesterday, NW&M Monitor has learned. Though the contract award has not been publicly announced, the agency notified bidders of its decision yesterday afternoon. Parsons teamed […]

URENCO USA does not plan to challenge the Department of Energy’s sole source contract to USEC for the enrichment of $44 million worth of uranium that will be used to produce tritium. DOE announced the contract earlier this month as financial problems plagued USEC’s American Centrifuge Project and with the company’s Paducah enrichment plant facing […]

Scott Smith will serve as the project manager for new National Nuclear Security Administration Enterprise Construction Management Services contractor Parsons, NW&M Monitor has learned. The NNSA formally announced the contract award yesterday, but hadn’t released details about the composition of Parsons’ winning team, which includes Project Assistance Corp. and Vector Resources. Smith has headed up […]

Hanford tank farms contractor Washington River Protection Solutions earned almost all of its available fee for Fiscal Year 2011, according to information the Department of Energy released this week. In total, WRPS earned $33,126,746.90 out of an available $33,334,089.90. The contractor’s fee included approximately $32 million tied to a set of performance-based incentives, with a […]

A sixth set of questions and answers on the final Request for Proposals for the consolidated Y-12/Pantex contract has been posted. The three pages of questions and answers can be found here.

Prospective bidders for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s consolidated Y-12/Pantex management and operating contract will get up close and personal looks at the sites they might eventually run this week. The agency is hosting a trio of site visits, starting with a visit to the Pantex Plant today. Bidders will visit the Y-12 National Security […]

The Department of Energy will no longer keep Performance Evaluation Reviews for National Nuclear Security Administration and Office of Environmental Management sites under wraps, deciding late Friday night that the annual report cards should be made public. The decision by Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman would reverse a 2009 decision by the NNSA to […]

Oak Ridge cleanup contractor URS-CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC, has called off a planned procurement for a subcontract to manage the site’s main landfills. In a brief message sent to prequalified bidders last week, UCOR said it made a “business decision” to self-perform the work beginning in early April, providing no further explanation as to why […]

A National Academy of Sciences National Research Council study panel says “serious” management issues are hampering work at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear weapons laboratories, noting a “persistent level of mistrust” between the labs and their federal overseers and calling the relationship “dysfunctional” and “broken.” The report, a copy of which was obtained by […]

DOE Cleanup chief David Huizenga and senior managers within the Office of Environmental Management are set to meet with corporate executives from the parent companies of all prime cleanup contractors at DOE headquarters in Washington tomorrow afternoon for a workshop on contract performance and management. The five-hour workshop, billed as a followup to a series […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has posted answers to a new round of questions—the eighth set of Q&As if you’re scoring at home—on the Y-12/Pantex Request for Proposals. The one-page of questions and answers, posted yesterday, seeks to further clarify how fee and cost savings will be calculated. The Q&As are available here.

A team led by Logistics Management Institute is protesting the National Nuclear Security Administration’s decision to award its Enterprise Construction Management Services contract to a team led by Parsons Infrastructure and Technology. Parsons, which teamed with Project Assistance Corp. and Vector Resources, was awarded the contract Jan. 31 to strengthen the NNSA’s front-end project planning. […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Energy last week authorized 180-day extensions for Y-12 and Oak Ridge protective force contractor WSI, providing time for the agency to compete a combined Oak Ridge and Pantex security contract this year. WSI’s separate contracts to provide security for Y-12 and other DOE activities in Oak […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has issued a second amendment to the final Request for Proposals for its combined Y-12/Pantex management and operating contract, clarifying how prospective contractors will assume control of benefits plans and clearing up guidance on how bidders should prepare cost savings plans. The agency also released a ninth set of Questions […]

The Department of Energy said yesterday that within a month it will issue the final Request for Proposals for disposal of low-level radioactive waste across the complex. In a pre-solicitation notice, DOE said it plans to award one or more five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contracts. “Each IDIQ contract will be for multiple selected types […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management appears to be close to making a final decision on whether or not to recompete the next cleanup contract for DOE’s Idaho site. EM is set to reach a final decision point within the next month on whether to recompete or move forward with a planned three-year […]

Babcock and Wilcox reported a strong fourth quarter in financial results released yesterday, with revenues of $800.8 million, up 13.6 percent from the same quarter in 2010, and an operating income of $93.3 million, or 25 percent more than in that quarter in 2010. Revenues for the full year of 2011 totaled $2,952 million, an […]

Portage appears set to retain the new contract for the Moab uranium mill tailings remediation project, with the Government Accountability Office having denied two protests filed over the award, WC Monitor has learned. The decisions against protests filed by TPMC-EnergySolutions Environmental Services, LLC, which includes Moab incumbent contractor EnergySolutions, and Gonzales-Stoller Remediation Services are expected […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration expects significant cost savings from its decision to consolidate protective force contracts at the Y-12 National Security Complex, Pantex Plant and Oak Ridge Reservation, but NNSA officials say it’s too early to project how much money is expected to be saved. The agency announced that it was pursuing the consolidated […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is removing the cap on fee that could be earned through cost savings from its merged Y-12/Pantex management and operating contract, potentially making the opportunity more lucrative and more enticing to industry. The agency detailed the change yesterday as it published the long-awaited final Request for Proposals for the contract, […]

Veteran Department of Energy security contractor WSI received an ‘outstanding’ rating and $2.369 million for its protective force work at the Savannah River Site during the last six months of Fiscal Year 2011, according to the company’s recently completed performance evaluation. WSI earned 94 percent out of the $2.520 million in available fee for its […]

Bidders for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Enterprise Construction Management Services contract are still waiting for a decision after an informal award deadline came and passed. NNSA Associate Administrator for Acquisition and Project Management Bob Raines said in December that the agency was on track to award the contract by the end of the year. […]

B&W Y-12 earned $51.2 million in fee after receiving an “excellent” performance rating for its work managing and operating the Y-12 National Security Complex, according to information provided to the Knoxville News Sentinel last week. B&W Y-12’s fee was out of a maximum possible fee of $55.2 million, but no details were provided as to […]

Details of Fiscal Year 2011 fee determinations for National Nuclear Security Administration sites have begun to trickle out, though information on exactly how much contractors have earned has not been released. At the NNSA’s Pantex Plant, contractor B&W Pantex said it earned its highest rating from the NNSA, receiving a 95.93 percent mark from the […]

While a number of companies interested in bidding on the new support services contract for the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management had sought additional time to prepare bids—a request granted by DOE—at least one company had been happy with the original timeline, according to a set of questions-and-answers on the LM support services […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has begun searching for a new set of support contractors, yesterday issuing two sources sought notices for environmental technical and safety management expertise. In one notice, EM is seeking capability statements from small disadvantaged business concerns under the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program to provide technical expertise […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded Los Alamos National Security LLC $76.1 million in management fees and a one-year extension to its lab management contract, extending the contractor’s current contract through 2017. As has been the practice in recent years, lab and NNSA officials did not release the award letter or performance evaluation report […]

Shaw AREVA MOX Services earned $7 million out of an available $8.7 million in award fee in 2011 for construction of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site, according to the contractor. On top of that, MOX Services also earned $2 million for meeting 2012 milestones ahead […]