The Department of Energy has extended by one week, until 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Aug. 1, the bid deadline for the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Operations and Site Mission Support Contract, potentially worth $2.9 billion over 10 years.
The earlier deadline for proposals was today for the contract that includes conversion of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) at the DOE gaseous diffusion plants at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Paducah Site in Kentucky to uranium oxide, a more stable form for storage, transport or disposal.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced the one-week extension in a Thursday notice on the federal procurement website, SAM.gov. Conversion plants have been operating at Portsmouth and Paducah since 2011.
The DOE issued a request for proposals May 25 for both the DUF6 work at the two enrichment plant sites. The same day a solicitation was also issued for the $5.87-billion Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning Contract.
Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Service has owned the current DUF6 contract since February 2017 and that agreement, now valued at $703 million, is currently set to sunset March 28, 2023.
The proposal submission deadline for the new Portsmouth cleanup contract passed earlier this month. The current contract, held by Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth since March 2011 and scheduled to run through March 28, 2023, is currently valued at $4.4 billion.
