The Energy Department announced Tuesday that Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth will stay on the job decontaminating and decommissioning the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant for another two-and-a-half years, under a $750 million contract option.
Together with the roughly $1.6 billion, five-year base contract awarded in 2011, the Portsmouth demolition work is now worth up to $$2.35 billion to Fluor-BWXT through Sept. 30, 2018. Under the option just triggered, Fluor will continue tearing down the former uranium enrichment facility near Piketon, Ohio.
“Services that will continue during the new performance period include demolition and disposal of all gaseous diffusion plant (GDP) facilities, process equipment, related process buildings, and other ancillary GDP facilities,” DOE said in its press release.
:In its determination, the Department found that the option execution is the government’s most cost-effective and advantageous alternative by allowing for continued uninterrupted services as well as continuing momentum on important projects such as waste management and deactivation of key plant facilities in preparation for demolition,” according to the release. “The option execution provides continuity of operations and supports workforce stability, and provides incentives and other provisions to ensure accountability for excellent performance.”
