The U.S. Energy Department announced on Friday it would keep BWX Technologies as a contractor for storage of radioactive hot cell waste and spent nuclear fuel.
The department’s Idaho Operations Office and Office of Nuclear Energy announced plans to issue the sole-source, five-year contract for continued waste storage at a BWXT facility in Lynchburg, Va.
“This work could possibly entail the preparation, packaging, and transportation of material for shipment of the radioactive material from the BWXT facility to either an interim or final storage facility,” according to the procurement notice, posted on FedConnect. “If during the 5-year period-of-performance of the contract the DOE decides it is necessary to move the radioactive material the DOE would enter into further cost negotiations with BWXT for the preparation, packaging, and transportation of the radioactive material.”
The award will be a firm-fixed-price contract. The Idaho Operations Office will in writing justify not conducting a competitive procurement, the notice says. But other parties can inform DOE that they believe they can meet the requirements of the contract. Notices must be sent by email no later than noon Mountain time on Sept. 30, to contract specialist Mark Payne, at [email protected].
The DOE procurement notice did not provide additional details, including the anticipated value of the new contract.
