The Department of Energy is giving potential bidders until Dec. 1 to respond to a final request for proposals for a new five-year infrastructure support services contract at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued the request for proposals (RFP) notice Tuesday. The DOE nuclear cleanup branch said in late September to expect a solicitation to go out within 15 to 60 days.
The current business is held by Portsmouth Mission Alliance, a joint venture of Idaho-based North Wind Group and Swift & Staley, under a $117-million contract that started in March 2016 and is scheduled to run through Feb. 24, 2021.
The chief contact on the procurement is DOE’s contracting officer, Jose E. Ortiz Delgado. Questions on the RFP should be filed with DOE by 4 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday Oct. 20 via email at [email protected].
The contractor team provides a wide array of landlord-type services to environmental cleanup firms at the 3,778-acre property that is home to a former uranium enrichment plant 75 miles south by road of Columbus. Day-to-day responsibilities include road upkeep, property and records management, building maintenance, information technology and safeguards and security.
The agreement will be a firm fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. It could span five years with a base period of about three years, including a 30-day transition and a two-year option.
It is not an end-state contract because it does not involve cleanup, Norbert Doyle, DOE-EM’s deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management, said in an online presentation to a conference sponsored by the Tennessee-based Energy Technology and Environmental Business Association.
Swift & Staley Staying on as Paducah Services Provider
Kentucky-based Swift & Staley appears to be staying on through January as the infrastructure support services contractor at the Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in Kentucky.
The department announced in a notice this summer that Swift & Staley could be extended. The DOE briefly published an incorrect date online, but an updated version dated Thursday said the company’s tenure will extend through Jan. 31.
The current value of the Swift & Staley contract, previously worth about $185 million, is now listed at $224 million.
In early December 2018, the DOE announced Swift & Staley was receiving an $88 million, 22-month contract extension to its original three-year base period that kept the contractor around through Sept. 30 of this year.
Swift & Staley has about 120 employees at the 3,500-acre property in Western Kentucky that was previously home to a uranium enrichment complex now undergoing remediation. The contractor provides a host of landlord services including upkeep of buildings, roads, and parking lots, as well as providing training, cybersecurity and records management.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management issued a final request for proposals for a new contract in February and Doyle said the award should be out this year. Bids were due in March.
