Mike Nartker
WC Monitor
4/3/2015
The Department of Energy this week issued a draft Request for Proposals for the new contract to manage DOE’s two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities. The new contract is being competed on a full-and-open 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. DOE envisions the new contract running for up to five years, consisting of a three-year base period and a two-year option period. Comments on the draft RFP are due by May 4. DOE also plans to hold a pre-solicitation conference, a site tour, and one-on-one sessions with interested parties during the week of April 27.
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.
