Fluor is looking for additional business opportunities within the Energy Department’s Cold War cleanup complex, Chairman and CEO David Seaton said Tuesday.
“We are looking at the Hanford liquid waste contract that is coming up for rebid this year,” Seaton said during a regular quarterly earnings conference call with Wall Street analysts.
He did not elaborate on the topic, but Seaton appeared to be referring to the follow-on to Washington River Protection Solutions’ (WRPS) waste storage tank operations contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
The incumbent’s 10-year, $7.1 billion contract held is set to expire in September. The DOE Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) had made a new tank waste management contract at Hanford a short-term priority, although it has yet to issue a draft request for proposals.
“There are several things in the DOE world that we’re pursuing, there is some rebids that are going on, as well as some of the base operation contracts that are coming up,” Seaton added later in the conference call, also without elaborating.
“As a matter of course, we review business opportunities as they arise but we cannot comment on specific pursuits,” said Fluor spokesperson Annika Toenniessen in a Wednesday email. “We’re proud of our longstanding relationship with the DOE and we look forward to supporting its mission into the future.”
Executives made no mention during the call of the failure of a Fluor-Westinghouse team to land a potential 10-year, $4.7 billion liquid waste management contract at DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina last October. The contract was awarded to a joint venture of BWXT Technical Services Group, Bechtel National, and Honeywell International.
The Government Accountability Office recently denied a Fluor-Westinghouse protest to the contract award, even as it upheld a protest from another losing team comprised of AEOM and CH2M.
