The Department of Energy is reviewing responses to a draft request for proposals (RFP) for the Legacy Cleanup Contract at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The deadline for responding to the draft RFP was Thursday Feb. 26.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management plans to eventually issue a final RFP to continue legacy remediation at Los Alamos. The business is now held by a team led by a Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) subsidiary.
The current Newport News Nuclear BWX Technologies (N3B) Los Alamos contract started in April 2018 and is valued at $2.1 billion, according to a DOE major contract summary. In 2023, DOE formally picked up a three-year option to keep N3B around through April 2026. Newport News Nuclear is part of HII.
DOE’s Environmental Management office kicked off its market research for a new contract in August 2024. The draft RFP was published online Feb. 12.
The work will include management and disposal of legacy transuranic, mixed and low-level waste; decontaminating and tearing down shuttered excess facilities; remediation of soil and water as well as groundwater; addressing an underground chromium plume and various environmental monitoring.
More information can be found here and here.
Most of the cleanup work at Los Alamos is driven by regulatory compliance agreements, according to a DOE procurement webpage. “The foundational agreement is the 2016 Compliance Order on Consent (Consent Order) with the State of New Mexico which governs the cleanup of hazardous materials. Other regulatory drivers include the Federal Facility Compliance Order, Site Treatment Plan, other environmental permits, closure plans, Federal and state regulations, Records of Decision (RODs), and other implementing documents.”
The DOE contact person for the solicitation is Clare Rexroad at clare.rexroad@emcbc.doe.gov.