The Department of Energy is seeking responses to a draft request for proposals (RFP) for the Legacy Cleanup Contract at the Los Alamos National Laboratory by 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.
Responses to the draft RFP are due by 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday Feb. 26. The DOE contact person for the solicitation is Clare Rexroad at clare.rexroad@emcbc.doe.gov.