Jeremy L. Dillon
WC Monitor
8/28/2015
The Department of Energy said last week it plans to issue the final request for proposals (RFP) for the operation of its depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities within the next two weeks. According to the announcement, the department anticipates issuing the RFP in the next 15 to 20 days as of Aug. 17. “The DUF6 Conversion Facilities release of a final request for proposals and contract award are on schedule with an anticipated award in the second quarter of fiscal year 2016,” a DOE spokesperson said this week.
The two DUF6 conversion plants, located at DOE’s Portsmouth and Paducah sites, are currently managed by BWXT Conversion Services LLC, under a contract set to expire in fall 2016. The plants are intended to assist disposition more than 700,000 metric tons of material stored in thousands of cylinders at the Ohio and Kentucky sites. The new contract is being competed on an unrestricted basis and will have cost-plus-award-fee contract line item numbers (CLINs) to cover conversion operations, along with firm fixed-price CLINs to cover cylinder management activities.
