A final Request for Proposals for the new contract to manage the Department of Energy’s two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plants is expected to be released within the next 15 to 45 days, DOE said in a notice issued yesterday. DOE also said that it expects to award the new contract “in or about” the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2016. The Department is currently accepting industry comment on updated sections of the draft RFP for the new contract (Sections B, H, L and M) through June 15.
The two DUF6 conversion plants, located at DOE’s Portsmouth and Paducah sites, are currently managed by B&W Conversion Services, LLC, under a contract set to expire at the start of 2016. The plants are intended to help disposition more than 700,000 metric tons of material stored in thousands of cylinders at the two sites. The new contract is being competed on an unrestricted basis and will have cost-plus-award-fee contract line item numbers (CLINs) to cover conversion operations; and firm fixed-price CLINs to cover cylinder management activities.
