March 17, 2014

EM PLANS TO HOLD ‘CONTRACTOR SUMMIT’ IN EARLY 2012

By ExchangeMonitor

With a new senior management team in place in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, EM is looking to hold a “contractor summit” in early 2012, according to acting DOE cleanup chief David Huizenga. Huizenga unveiled the plans for the summit yesterday during a meeting of the Energy Facility Contractors Group in Washington, D.C., though he did not go into additional detail. On the sidelines of the meeting, Deputy Assistant EM Secretary for Acquisition and Contract Management Jack Surash declined to provide additional information on the planned summit, saying only that EM would release information in the next few weeks.

In his remarks at the EFCOG meeting, Huizenga repeated a long-familiar mantra to industry officials in attendance, saying EM is working to implement “a more streamlined procurement process.” Among the steps EM is taking, according to Huizenga, is increased emphasis on the use of firm fixed price contracts, “consistency of procurement processes” and minimizing the level of detail that’s required for bids for new contracts. In addition, EM is looking at “maximizing use of contract vehicles awarded by EM and other components of DOE who have contracts that are open for use across the Department” and at improving contract transition to “ensure awareness of government and contractor staffs to the terms and conditions of the newly awarded contracts,” Huizenga said. “Some of these things seem like common sense but there all things I think we need to continue to focus on,” he said.

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