Contracts & Procurement
Awards, protests, extensions, and re-competes for management and operating contracts and major subcontracts across the weapons complex and commercial nuclear sector.
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE plans Paducah landlord presentation, site tour May 29
The Department of Energy in late May will hold an information session and site tour for potential bidders on a new Infrastructure Support Service contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management recently announced it would extend the incumbent landlord contractor Swift & Staley for up to 16 months, potentially through […]
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Contracts & Procurement
AtkinsRéalis reports strong 1Q earnings, rising nuclear tide
Earnings rose at AtkinsRéalis, Montreal, Canada, in the first quarter, which the company attributed in part Wednesday to surging international interest in new nuclear power. Net earnings for the first quarter ended were C$45.5 million (US$33.45 million) or C$0.26 (US$0.19) a share, up from C$28.4 million (US$20.88 million) or or C$0.16 a share (U.S. 0.12 […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Navarro, 2 other small businesses form Nuclear Services Partners
A trio of small businesses based in Oak Ridge Tenn., have teamed up to form Nuclear Services Partners LLC, to pursue nuclear contracts in Tennessee and nationally, the companies announced last week. Nuclear Services Partners is a joint venture of Navarro Research and Engineering, MS Technology and Strata-G. Together the three small businesses have a […]
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Contracts & Procurement
AtkinsRéalis reports strong 1Q earnings, rising nuclear tide
Earnings rose at AtkinsRéalis, Montreal, Canada, in the first quarter, which the company attributed in part Wednesday to surging international interest in new nuclear power. Net earnings for the first quarter ended were C$45.5 million (US$33.45 million) or C$0.26 (US$0.19) a share, up from C$28.4 million (US$20.88 million) or or C$0.16 a share (U.S. 0.12 […]
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Contracts & Procurement
DOE to award National Training Center management contract ‘by August’
The Department of Energy said it is still reviewing the latest small business proposals it got to manage the National Training Center in New Mexico and planned an award no sooner than August. In 2023, three small businesses protested the Department of Energy’s (DOE) 2022 award to Eagle Harbor to manage the National Training Center […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Navarro, Deep Isolation form ‘strategic partnership’
Navarro Research and Engineering, Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Deep Isolation, Berkeley, Calif., said they formed a “strategic partnership” to help demonstrate disposal of nuclear waste in deep boreholes. “Navarro will provide engineering, environmental and technical support, and nuclear safety expertise,” reads a joint press release dated May 2024. Founded in 2016, Deep Isolation is trying […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE plans Paducah landlord presentation, site tour May 29
The Department of Energy in late May will hold an information session and site tour for potential bidders on a new Infrastructure Support Service contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management recently announced it would extend the incumbent landlord contractor Swift & Staley for up to 16 months, potentially through […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Navarro, 2 other small businesses form Nuclear Services Partners
A trio of small businesses based in Oak Ridge Tenn., have teamed up to form Nuclear Services Partners LLC, to pursue nuclear contracts in Tennessee and nationally, the companies announced last week. Nuclear Services Partners is a joint venture of Navarro Research and Engineering, MS Technology and Strata-G. Together the three small businesses have a […]
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Contracts & Procurement
CNS to subcontract fuel station construction at Tennessee weapons site
Consolidated Nuclear Security planned to subcontract construction of a new vehicle fuel station at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the site prime said Monday. The project includes designing and building the new fuel station for Y-12, as well as equipping a building with a computer station and three 10,000-gallon fueling systems, […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Earnings up at BWXT but tough competition, staff ramp-up on uranium work slow government ops growth
Earnings rose at BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va., in the first quarter, during which the company said Monday it cranked out more naval-nuclear components but made less money on government business overall as it bulked up its workforce. Work is beginning under subsidiary contracts with the Tennessee Valley Authority and the National Nuclear Security (NNSA) Administration, […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
NNSA exploring contract options for depleted uranium production
The National Nuclear Security Administration began planning Monday for a contract to annually produce 400 metric tons of high purity depleted uranium for future nuclear-weapon manufacturing. “Vendors should assume that a contract would be awarded by July 15, 2025,” the agency wrote in a request for information published Monday. Responses to the request for information […]
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Contracts & Procurement
BWXT taps former Senate appropriations staffer for government relations post
John Lucio, once a staff member of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, was appointed director of government relations by Lynchburg, Va.-based BWX Technologies, the company said last week. Most recently Lucio was a senior vice president at Ervin Graves Strategy Group in Washington, D.C., BWXT said in a May 1 press release. A retired commissioned […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Wrap up: 2025 trial possible in case against Hanford landlord; Ex- Canada lab exec joins SRS prime; Ex-DOE manager Flohr joins Navarro; and more
The Department of Justice and the landlord contractor for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state both anticipate a fraud trial lasting several weeks could be held in federal district court during fall of 2025. That is one of the key takeaways from a joint filing Thursday by Justice, on behalf of a […]
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Contracts & Procurement
N3B inks Los Alamos subcontracts for building upkeep, health clinic
The legacy cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory said this week it has signed two subcontracts, worth a combined $36.5 million, with small businesses for building maintenance and health services. Newport News Nuclear BWTX Los Alamos (N3B) said in a Wednesday press release it has signed a roughly $30-million contract […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Orano gets contract for dry-storage expansion at Wolf Creek
Evergy gave Orano USA a contract to nearly double the size of the dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel at the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station site near Burlington, Kansas, the company said Wednesday in a press release. The contract, financial details of which Orano did not provide in its press release, calls for […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Jacobs earnings dip, company secures some approvals for Amentum deal
Earnings fell at Jacobs, Dallas, in the second quarter of its fiscal 2024, which the international engineering and technical services company attributed to a $95-million share repurchase program. Importantly, Jacobs also said in its Tuesday earnings release that it has major regulatory approvals in hand for the announced merger of its government contracting and cyber […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
BWXT touts re-award, hopes for Hanford waste contract transition this year
Despite protests by a rival, a team led by BWX Technologies has now twice won a $45 billion Department of Energy liquid waste contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state, which shows it is a “superior” proposal, CEO Rex Geveden said Monday during an earnings call. “After multiple protests… the DOE decided to re-award […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Protests of competition bids for DOE contract could finally end in August
The Department of Energy will not bring on a new small-business contractor to run its National Training Center in New Mexico before early August, a recent procurement document shows. On April 30, DOE extended through Aug. 5 the contract it awarded in 2018 to training center incumbent Kupono Government Services, meaning it will take almost […]
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Contracts & Procurement
BWXT taps former Senate appropriations staffer for government relations post
John Lucio, once a staff member of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, was appointed director of government relations by Lynchburg, Va.-based BWX Technologies, the company said last week. Most recently Lucio was a senior vice president at Ervin Graves Strategy Group in Washington, D.C., BWXT said in a May 1 press release. A retired commissioned […]
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Contracts & Procurement
N3B inks Los Alamos subcontracts for building upkeep, health clinic
The legacy cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory said this week it has signed two subcontracts, worth a combined $36.5 million, with small businesses for building maintenance and health services. Newport News Nuclear BWTX Los Alamos (N3B) said in a Wednesday press release it has signed a roughly $30-million contract […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Orano gets contract for dry-storage expansion at Wolf Creek
Evergy gave Orano USA a contract to nearly double the size of the dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel at the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station site near Burlington, Kansas, the company said Wednesday in a press release. The contract, financial details of which Orano did not provide in its press release, calls for […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus has first quarter loss; HALEU biz ramps up; RU uranium ban addressed in earnings
Centrus Energy Corp., Bethesda, Md., had a net loss in the first quarter, which the uranium broker and enrichment technology developer attributed to the timing of uranium fuel orders by its customers. The quarterly net loss was about $6 million, or $0.38 a share, down from net earnings of more than $7 million, or $0.47 […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Jacobs earnings dip, company secures some approvals for Amentum deal
Earnings fell at Jacobs, Dallas, in the second quarter of its fiscal 2024, which the international engineering and technical services company attributed to a $95-million share repurchase program. Importantly, Jacobs also said in its Tuesday earnings release that it has major regulatory approvals in hand for the announced merger of its government contracting and cyber […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Earnings up at BWXT but tough competition, staff ramp-up on uranium work slow government ops growth
Earnings rose at BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va., in the first quarter, during which the company said Monday it cranked out more naval-nuclear components but made less money on government business overall as it bulked up its workforce. Work is beginning under subsidiary contracts with the Tennessee Valley Authority and the National Nuclear Security (NNSA) Administration, […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
NNSA exploring contract options for depleted uranium production
The National Nuclear Security Administration began planning Monday for a contract to annually produce 400 metric tons of high purity depleted uranium for future nuclear-weapon manufacturing. “Vendors should assume that a contract would be awarded by July 15, 2025,” the agency wrote in a request for information published Monday. Responses to the request for information […]
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Contracts & Procurement
CNS to subcontract fuel station construction at Tennessee weapons site
Consolidated Nuclear Security planned to subcontract construction of a new vehicle fuel station at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the site prime said Monday. The project includes designing and building the new fuel station for Y-12, as well as equipping a building with a computer station and three 10,000-gallon fueling systems, […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Ex-DOE manager Flohr joints Navarro
Connie Flohr, a longtime Department of Energy executive who retired from the agency last month after being manager of cleanup at Idaho National Laboratory, has joined contractor Navarro Research & Engineering. In her role at Oak Ridge, Tenn.,-based Navarro, Flohr will concentrate on partnerships and growing the company’s footprint within DOE, NASA and the Department […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Earnings rise at Fluor; Pantex award decision expected soon
Earnings rose at Fluor, Irving, Texas, in the first quarter, which the weapons complex contractor attributed to new awards in its Urban Solutions segment. Net earnings for the first quarter ended March 31 were $59 million, or $0.34 a share, up from a loss of $107 million or 0.82 a share, in the year-ago quarter, […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Earnings rise at Fluor; Pantex award decision expected soon
Earnings rose at Fluor, Irving, Texas, in the first quarter, which the weapons complex contractor attributed to new awards in its Urban Solutions segment. Net earnings for the first quarter ended March 31 were $59 million, or $0.34 a share, up from a loss of $107 million or 0.82 a share, in the year-ago quarter, […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Oneid joins EnergySolutions from Holtec
Pierre Oneid, formerly with Holtec International, joined EnergySolutions as vice president of business development, the Salt Lake City company said this week. “Pierre’s focus will be to support the development of our new offerings in the nuclear services arena,” Ken Robuck, president and CEO of EnergySolutions, said in a press release announcing the hire. At […]




