Contracts & Procurement

With a bid protest pending on a five-year contract, it appears three contractors will for the time being continue to provide technical support services for the U.S. Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. A roundup of major procurements at DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, updated Wednesday, shows the stopgap extension to Nov. 30 for the Portsmouth […]

The security contractor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina received a four-month extension Friday, keeping the company on the job through Feb. 7, 2020. Centerra-SRS, a subsidiary of Florida-based Centerra, will receive $35.8 million during the extension, the Energy Department said, just three days before the company’s initial 10-year, […]

The security contractor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina received a four-month extension Friday, keeping the company on the job through Feb. 7, 2020. Centerra-SRS, a subsidiary of Florida-based Centerra, will receive $35.8 million during the extension, the Energy Department said, just three days before the company’s initial 10-year, […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Barring unforeseen circumstances, the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management expects soon to award the potential 10-year, $6 billion support services contract for the Hanford Site in Washington state, an agency procurement official said Wednesday. The Energy Department apparently recently informed Congress the contract was being awarded, only to reverse course […]

With a bid protest pending on a five-year contract, it appears three contractors will for the time being continue to provide technical support services for the U.S. Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. A roundup of major procurements at DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, updated Wednesday, shows the stopgap extension to Nov. 30 for the Portsmouth […]

The security contractor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina received a four-month extension Friday, keeping the company on the job through Feb. 7, 2020. Centerra-SRS, a subsidiary of Florida-based Centerra, will receive $35.8 million during the extension, the Energy Department said, just three days before the company’s initial 10-year, […]

The U.S. Navy has exercised a $1 billion option for fiscal 2020 for Fluor Marine Propulsion, a subsidiary of the troubled engineering giant that is selling off its government contracting business, to continue work on nuclear propulsion systems for U.S. warships and submarines. Fluor Marine Propulsion has managed the joint Department of Energy-Navy Naval Nuclear […]

The Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) could be eligible for around $250 million in fees over three years, if the Department of Energy picks up the team’s options to manage the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., according to the text of a contract modification awarded over the summer. The modification, signed on July […]

The security contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina has not yet received a contract extension, with the current award set to expire Monday. In an email Thursday afternoon, a DOE spokesperson said there was no update on the contract situation for Centerra, a Florida-based company that provides access […]

The U.S. Energy Department is giving interested vendors four more days, until Tuesday, Oct. 8, to comment on a draft request for proposals on a nationwide deactivation, decommissioning, and removal services contract that could be worth $3 billion. The agency’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center announced the deadline extension Tuesday on the FidBizOpps website. The […]

Idaho-based North Wind Group is picking up about $30 million worth of additional business in California from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. Within the past week, the company received word of a $22 million award for services at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as well as a two-year extension, worth between […]

The U.S. Department of Energy on Sept. 27 officially issued up to one-year contract extensions for waste tank and Central Plateau cleanup at the Hanford Site in Washington state, as federal procurement officials work on long-term awards for those and other major projects. The previously announced extensions will be worth $665 million for AECOM-led Washington […]

The Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) could be eligible for around $250 million in fees over three years, if the Department of Energy picks up the team’s options to manage the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., according to the text of a contract modification awarded over the summer. The modification, signed on July […]

Three Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee say the U.S. Energy Department should tap the brakes on issuing a multibillion-dollar contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state, to a vendor being sued by the United States under the False Claims Act. While the lawmakers’ Sept. 27 letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry is short […]

The U.S. Energy Department is giving interested vendors four more days, until Tuesday, Oct. 8, to comment on a draft request for proposals on a nationwide deactivation, decommissioning, and removal services contract that could be worth $3 billion. The agency’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center announced the deadline extension Tuesday on the FidBizOpps website. The […]

Three Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee say the U.S. Energy Department should hold off on issuing a multibillion-dollar contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state, to a vendor being sued by the United States under the False Claims Act. In a Sept. 27 letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), […]

The Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) could be eligible for around $250 million in fees over three years, if the Department of Energy picks up the team’s options to manage the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., according to the text of a contract modification awarded over the summer. The modification, signed on July […]

Idaho-based North Wind Group is picking up about $30 million worth of additional business in California from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. Within the past week, the company received word of a $22 million award for services at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as well as a two-year extension, worth between […]

The U.S. Navy has exercised a $1 billion option for fiscal 2020 for Fluor Marine Propulsion, a subsidiary of the troubled engineering giant that is selling off its government contracting business, to continue work on nuclear propulsion systems for U.S. warships and submarines. Fluor Marine Propulsion has managed the joint Department of Energy-Navy Naval Nuclear […]

The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday officially issued up to one-year contract extensions for waste tank and Central Plateau cleanup at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The previously announced extensions will be worth $665 million for AECOM-led Washington River Protection Solutions and $500 million to Jacobs subsidiary CH2M Plateau Remediation, DOE said. The […]

Nearly a month past its own declared schedule, the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management still has not issued a draft request for proposals (RFP) for further cleanup of the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. On July 2, DOE said in a notice on the federal procurement website FedBizOpps that it anticipated issuing the […]

Fluor, the Texas-based engineering and construction giant trying to reverse its worsening financial condition, said Tuesday it will sell off its government contracting business that includes its work for the U.S. Department of Energy. While long a major player in government services, Fluor sees the business as a valuable property that can be moved in […]

Fluor, the Texas-based engineering and construction giant trying to reverse its worsening financial condition, said this week it will sell off its government contracting business that includes all its work for the Department of Energy. Long a major player in government services, the laboring Fluor now sees the business as a valuable property that can […]

Companies in the U.S. Energy Department nuclear cleanup sector are still trying to gauge the impact of Fluor’s decision to divest its government contracting business. There are still far more questions than answers among DOE contractors, subcontractors, and workforce, several sources said following the Tuesday announcement from the Texas-based engineering and construction giant. “Nobody really […]

Perma-Fix Environmental Services on Tuesday said it had picked up $15 million in new contracts with the Department of Energy and other customers, for nuclear services including demolition and radiological cleanup. The projects cover 18 months of work, both in Canada and the United States, according to a press release. The Atlanta-based nuclear services provider […]

Fluor’s announcement Tuesday that it will sell off its government business unit opens the door for one of its peers to take full or partial ownership of multibillion-dollar contracts for the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management and semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The Irving, Texas-based engineering and construction multinational is lead partner […]

Nearly a month past its own declared schedule, the U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management still has not issued a draft request for proposals (RFP) for further cleanup of the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. On July 2, DOE said in a notice on the federal procurement website FedBizOpps that it anticipated issuing the […]

Texas-based Fluor, a pillar of the U.S. Energy Department’s nuclear operations and cleanup complexes, said Tuesday it will exit the government market as part of a company shakeup following recent hard times. CEO Carlos Hernandez and Executive Chairman Alan Boeckmann announced plans to divest the company’s government services business, as well as the AMECO construction […]

A Colorado-based company has won a roughly $2.8 million litigation support contract for the U.S. Energy Department’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center. The Cincinnati-based procurement center for the DOE Office of Environmental Management published the award to TLI Solutions on Sept. 19. The contractor will support the EMCBC chief counsel in “simple and complex litigation” […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Keeping the threat of a bid protest in his back pocket, a Boeing Co. executive said here Tuesday the U.S. Air Force can save time and money building the next generation of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles by scrapping a competition in which only Northrop Grumman is now competing. “What I am suggesting […]