C2G International will assist the Energy Department’s Separations Process Research Unit field office in Niskayuna, N.Y., with contract-claims resolution and other legal matters under a legal support services contract worth up to $2.3 million, DOE announced Monday.
The agency’s deal with the global contract resolution and litigation support specialist features a one-year base and two one-year options, according to a press release DOE emailed to reporters Monday, but which by Wednesday was no longer accessible on the agency’s website.
DOE’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
According to the press release, C2G will “assist DOE in evaluating and resolving contract claims, review previously submitted Requests for Equitable Adjustments and Proposals, assist with the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process and assist with drafting Expert reports to cover critical path delays and construction in support of the DOE Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) field office.”
AECOM is DOE’s prime contractor for deactivation, demolition, and removal of SPRU facilities, under a nine-year, $145.8-million contract that is set to expire Dec. 21, and which has become an albatross for the Los Angeles-based company.
Last year, the company estimated the SPRU job could cost close to $400 million. AECOM got the SPRU demo work when it acquired URS Corp. in 2014, some seven years after the latter company inked what was then a four-year, $67-million SPRU cleanup deal with DOE.
AECOM declined to comment for this story. Company filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show AECOM in 2014 filed a roughly $100 million claim with DOE for SPRU work outside the scope of a 2011 contract modification the agency granted the company.
AECOM wound up doing this work because of “unanticipated requirements and permitting delays by federal and state agencies, as well as delays and related ground stabilization activities caused by Hurricane Irene in 2011,” according to the 10-Q quarterly report the company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 10.
SPRU is a Cold War-era plant used for researching the separation of plutonium from irradiated uranium from 1950 to 1953. The facility is co-located with the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. Cleanup is expected to be completed in 2018.
