The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District is extending by a week, to April 11, its deadline for responses to its request for information for a small business to perform environmental remediation at the Deepwater site in New Jersey.
The original response deadline was April 4 for parties interested in doing cleanup at the former DuPont Chambers Works Atomic Energy Commission site in Deepwater, N.J. The Army Corps announced the deadline extension in a notice Monday in the online System for Awards Management (SAM.gov).
The initial request for information was published in February.
Ultimately, the Philadelphia District intends to issue a request for proposal for a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity single award contract to clean up the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) site, according to the notice.
The Corps wants a contractor to handle soil and groundwater cleanup and address radiological contamination, according to the notice. The property hosted past uranium refinement for a couple of World War II era entities, the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Manhattan Engineer District, along with and the Atomic Energy Commission in the early years of the U.S. nuclear energy program.
Uranium, thorium, and radium constituents need to be addressed at the site, now owned by Chemours, according to the notice. The Corps issued a five-year report in 2022 on the site in Salem County, N.J.
