Contracts & Procurement

The decision by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management not to release Performance Evaluation Review data has drawn the attention of Congress, and Hill staffers expect the issue to receive increased attention over the next year. NNSA has shielded the reviews from public release since 2009, citing […]

The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Operations Office has submitted a recommendation to DOE headquarters to partially extend Savannah River Nuclear Solutions’ contract to manage the Savannah River Site, WC Monitor has learned. With the initial five-year period of SRNS’ contract set to expire in 2013, the proposed recommendation would keep the Fluor-led contractor in […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration this morning posted a second set of questions and answers on the Y-12/Pantex contract competition. The single page of questions and answers seeks primarily to provide further clarification of cost savings and fee language in the final Request for Proposals. The questions and answers can be found by clicking here.

Kansas City Plant contractor Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies has awarded a contract worth more than $80 million to real estate company CB Richard Ellis in advance of its move to a new facility on the outskirts of Kansas City. With construction of the new $815 million facility on schedule, the plant said it would […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has released another set of questions and answers to the final Request for Proposals for its combined Y-12 National Security Complex/Pantex Plant management and operating contract. The fourth set of Q&As released since the final RFP was published in December, the latest group clears up potential questions about when contractors […]

Mission Support Alliance and its key subcontractors are laying off a total of 36 Hanford employees after expecting to cut up to 50 jobs this month. The layoffs include 12 previously approved voluntary layoffs, plus 11 involuntary union worker layoffs and 13 involuntary nonunion worker layoffs. However, eight of the union employees have seniority to […]

The Department of Energy has once again pushed back the due date for bids on the new Office of Legacy Management support services contract. Now, bids are due by Feb. 15, instead of Feb. 1, as previously planned. The change—marking the third time DOE has shifted the bid due date—was part of a new amendment […]

Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR this week notified six prequalified companies and teams for its radiological protection support services subcontract. The subcontract’s scope includes furnishing labor and vehicles for UCOR’s radiological protection-related programs, providing all required health physicists and giving personnel with related training. It does not cover characterization, treatment or disposal of waste. UCOR […]

A nuclear watchdog group that successfully sued to get the National Nuclear Security Administration to release its 10-year site plans several years ago says it will take the agency to court over its refusal to release the Performance Evaluation Reviews used to award fee to the contractors that run the sites. Since 2009, the agency […]

The Obama Administration is making a new push to significantly lower the amount of contractor executive pay that is reimbursed by the federal government. Currently, pay for senior executives under federal contracts is reimbursed up to a cap determined by the annual compensation for top executives at large publicly traded companies, with such a cap […]

Babcock & Wilcox yesterday reported a revenue increase of more than 10 percent in the third quarter of 2011, though the company also saw a drop in operating income from last year. For the third quarter of 2011, B&W reported revenues of $707.6 million, an increase of $74.8 million, or 11.8 percent, from the same […]

As industry officials await the competition of additional tasks under the 12 small business Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity cleanup contracts awarded last year by the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, Ralph Holland of EM’s Consolidated Business Center says he expects more work will be offered in the future. “We’re always looking for opportunities, and […]

Kansas City Plant contractor Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies wants its striking production workers to vote again on the contract proposal it rejected a month ago, but a representative from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said that won’t happen as long as Honeywell refuses to change its offer. As the strike neared […]

Babcock & Wilcox announced Nov. 12 that George Dudich has been named President of B&W Technical Services Group, replacing Bob Cochran effective immediately. The exact circumstances of Cochran’s departure from B&W Technical Services remain unclear, though the company said in its release that he left to “pursue other opportunities.” For his part, Cochran said he […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration took the first steps in recompeting its Enterprise Wide Technical and Engineering Support Services Blanket Purchase Agreement, releasing a draft solicitation yesterday that favors small businesses interested in the opportunity. The contract, which has a proposed ceiling of $300 million, is open to companies holding the General Services Administration’s Mission […]

According to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s self-imposed timeline for releasing a final Request for Proposals for its combined Y-12/Pantex M&O contract, the 60-day clock on the agency’s work will run out Friday. But the agency isn’t saying whether it will release the final RFP this week as NNSA spokesman Josh McConaha declined to reveal […]

Perma-Fix Environmental Services’ recently completed acquisition of Safety and Ecology Corp. may be getting off to a rocky start, with the company now likely to have to address issues concerning a set of SEC’s contracts. In its most recent earnings report, filed Nov. 7, Perma-Fix outlined performance concerns on three of SEC’s projects. Although, Perma-Fix […]

Oral presentations for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Enterprise Construction Management Services contract will take place this week, with at least four teams making their case to provide front-end project planning for the agency. Bids for the contract were submitted earlier this month and teams were notified late last week that orals would take place […]

The Department of Energy yesterday issued a Request for Proposals seeking small business bidders for the new contract to provide occupational medical services at Hanford. The contract is estimated to be worth approximately $102 million and is set to run for up to six years, consisting of a two-year base period and four one-year options. […]

Responding to industry feedback, the National Nuclear Security Administration is planning to increase the available fee for its proposed Y-12/Pantex contract merger and strip out protective force work from the consolidated contract, according to a preview of changes released by the agency yesterday. Indicating that a final Request for Proposals would formally be released later […]

The Department of Energy appears set to face protests over its recent decision to award Portage the new contract to continue the Moab uranium mill tailings remediation project. Debriefings are scheduled with the losing teams this week and, according to industry officials, a protest appears likely to be filed with the Government Accountability Office by […]

The latest version of URS-CH2M Oak Ridge’s Request for Proposals for staff augmentation does not cover the transition of incumbent staff, something that had been included in an initial RFP that the Oak Ridge cleanup contractor cancelled last month. UCOR issued a new version of the contract Thursday that did not include a section on […]

In a holiday gift to contractors, the Department of Energy last week issued the long-awaited Request for Proposals for the new support services contract for DOE’s Office of Legacy Management the day before Thanksgiving, with bids due two days before Christmas. The cost-plus-award-fee contract with task assignments is being set aside for small businesses, and […]

Bidders on the upcoming subcontract to provide staff augmentation services to URS-CH2M Oak Ridge won’t have such a busy Thanksgiving holiday after all. While bids were initially due Nov. 29 and a set of Q&A’s released over the weekend emphasized that no extension was planned, UCOR yesterday extended the due date to Dec. 2. The […]

In a holiday gift to contractors, the Department of Energy last week issued the long-awaited Request for Proposals for the new support services contract for DOE’s Office of Legacy Management the day before Thanksgiving, with bids due two days before Christmas. The cost-plus-award-fee contract with task assignments is being set aside for small businesses, and […]

The team of Terranear-EnergySolutions, as expected, filed a protest last week with the Government Accountability over its loss of the new contract to continue the Moab uranium mill remediation project. EnergySolutions is the incumbent contractor for the Moab project and will likely receive an extension to its contract, currently set to expire at the end […]

Will this be the week the National Nuclear Security Administration releases the final Request for Proposals for its consolidated Y-12/Pantex management and operating contract? The Source Evaluation Board for the procurement released a preview of its proposed changes to the draft RFP Nov. 15 and said then that it “anticipates” the release of the final […]

A second unsuccessful bidder is now challenging the Department of Energy’s decision to award the new Moab cleanup contract to Portage. Gonzales-Stoller Remediation Services, LLC, filed a protest over the award with the Government Accountability Office on Nov. 25, just days after TPMC-EnergySolutions Environmental Services, LLC, filed one on Nov. 23. The GAO, which made […]

Former Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos manager Raymond Juzaitis has been named as the President of Nevada National Security Site manager National Security Technologies, LLC. Juzaitis will take over the position Jan. 5, replacing Stephen Younger, who announced his retirement in August. Juzaitis most recently has served as the head of Texas A&M’s nuclear engineering […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration, as expected, has officially moved to consolidate the protective force contracts at the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex Plant, outlining plans to combine the contracts with other protective force work at the Oak Ridge Reservation in a sources sought notice released yesterday. In the notice, the NNSA suggested […]