The Energy Department said this week it will solicit bids to build a transuranic liquid waste processing facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in the fourth quarter.
The contract for the so-called Transuranic Liquid Waste Project will be worth between $15 million and $20 million, DOE said in a procurement note posted online Tuesday. The multistory facility will take up about 3,750 square feet and replace the lab’s current Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility, according to the pre-solicitation note.
“The facility will include process equipment such as tanks, piping, a micro filter, a drum evaporator system, and associated support areas such as a drum preparation and storage area, personal protective equipment don and doff room, decontamination room, and telecommunication, electrical, fire riser, and mechanical rooms,” DOE wrote in the note.
The work is for a Hazard Category 3 nuclear facility, so DOE will consider only bidders that meet the federal Nuclear Quality Assurance-1, according to the note.