An Energy Department contract for loading of transuranic waste prior to shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., will not be renewed when it expires at the end of this month.
Georgia-based-Celeritex Services physically loads certain transuranic waste at DOE generating sites prior to its transport to WIPP. That covers assembling payloads, leak testing, and shipment certification, according to a DOE website on contract opportunities for small and disadvantaged businesses.
The current contract’s expiration date is Oct. 31. The cost-plus, fixed-fee deal awarded in 2012 has an estimated value of $18 million over five years.
The work is carried out at a number of waste-generating facilities within the DOE complex, including the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Idaho National Laboratory, the Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories in New Mexico, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
A DOE source confirmed Thursday that the contract is not being renewed.
The business could be rebid as a prime contract, or be carried out as a subcontract under another DOE contractor. The website indicated that a decision has yet to be made on this issue.
The program office for the contract is the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center. According to its website, Celeritex LLC is a joint venture formed by Project Service Group LLC and DeNuke Contracting Services.
