The Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Services will get six more months tacked onto its contract to process depleted uranium hexafluoride in Ohio and Kentucky while the Department of Energy solicits bids for a follow-on contract that will include new work for active nuclear weapons programs.
The incumbent, which also includes Westinghouse and Fluor, will now be on the job through late September 2023. Mid-America’s contract started in February 2017, is valued at $703 million and would have expired March 28, 2023 without the extension.
The follow-on contract to the Mid-America deal is called the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Operations and Site Mission Support Contract. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management owns the contract and the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will pass money through it for construction and operation of a new depleted uranium tetrafluoride line at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio.
DOE released its final request for proposals (RFP) for the follow-on depleted uranium contract the week of May 23, less than a year before the Mid-America contract would have expired. Bids for the new contract are due July 25 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.
Questions on the planned six-month extension for Mid-America Conversion Services should be emailed to DOE contracting officer David Senderling, [email protected].
The new Paducah contract would combine Mid-America’s depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion with certain operations work now siloed under the site cleanup contractors for Portsmouth and Paducah.
DOE on May 25 made a double-barrel announcement for the final RFPs for both the potential 10-year, $2.9-billion Portsmouth Paducah operations contract as well as the potential 10-year, $5.87-billion Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning Contract, which includes solely legacy nuclear cleanup work for the Office of Environmental Management.
