CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation will have plenty of work to do over the next year after the Energy Department last month granted it a 12-month extension of its Central Plateau Cleanup contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
When it issued the draft request for proposals for the upcoming $6.5 billion Central Plateau contract on Sept. 27, DOE also issued the incumbent CH2M a year-long extension, valued at about $500 million, which runs through September 2019.
According to a DOE spokesperson, tasks within the extension period include: stabilizing PUREX Tunnel 2, which is at high risk of collapse; safely tearing down the Plutonium Finishing Plant; and moving 35 cubic yards of radioactive sludge away from the K West Reactor Basin near the Columbia River to safer storage in Hanford’s T Plant.
The chores also include design of the transfer system to move 1,936 capsules of radioactive cesium and strontium from wet to dry storage, the spokesperson said. The work also includes removal of about 50 tons of debris from a hot cell in the 324 building, also known as the Chemical Materials Engineering Laboratory.
The prime, now a Jacobs subsidiary, began work in 2008 on the original $5.8 billion cost-plus-award-fee contract, which was expanded during the Obama Administration to include an additional $1.3 billion of economic stimulus work.
Responses to the draft RFP for the new contract are due by Oct. 24. The Energy Department is holding a site tour and one-on-one meetings with prospective bidders Monday through Thursday of this week at Hanford.
