The Department of Energy plans to extend its contract with CDM Smith for technical support services at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County, Calif., into August, increasing the value of the deal by $3 million.
The notice announcing the justification for departure from normal competitive bidding was posted Jan. 3 in the government’s online System Awards Management website, SAM.gov.
Under the planned modification, the business agreement is being extended by eight months, until Aug. 31, 2024, and the value will increase by $3 million to $44.3 million, according to the notice.
The Boston-based engineering firm CDM does work on soil and groundwater remediation plans by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management for the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) within the DOE-run Area IV of the 2,850-acre Santa Susana research site. For decades DOE did research at the site, 30 miles from Los Angeles, into nuclear energy.
California is overseeing cleanup of the site that is owned by Boeing and also had NASA as a long-time tenant of the property.
While CDM’s work is winding down, DOE Headquarters has yet to issue a record of decision for soil remediation “and is contemplating additional” National Environmental Policy Act analysis prior to issuing a soils decision, according to the recent notice.
DOE has taken all of its structures at Santa Susana down to ground level and in June 2023, California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control issued its long-awaited Final Program Environmental Impact Report for the site.
