IDAHO TO COMBINE CLEANUP CONTRACTS, BREAK OUT D&D FOR SMALL BIZ

The Department of Energy’s Idaho Operations Office is looking to combine its two cleanup contracts starting in Fiscal Year 2016, but plans to break out some D&D work for small businesses, DOE Idaho cleanup program Manager Jim Cooper said yesterday. “We do recognize that our work is shrinking out there, our footprint is shrinking. So we believe we could have one contract,” he said at a Congressional Nuclear Cleanup Caucus Briefing. “We are also looking at the type of work we are doing and we think there is small business work out there, especially with respect to D&D. We are looking at isolating the D&D and then having that as a direct DOE small business contract.”

 

A draft request for proposals should be issued in the “early summer,” Cooper said, with a strategy plan coming in the end of June. Both current cleanup contracts come to an end in Fiscal Year 2015. The Idaho Cleanup Project, which entails much of the cleanup work at the site, is currently being performed by CH2M WG Idaho, which is made up of CH2M Hill and URS. The Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project, used to prepare transuranic and other wastes for disposition, is managed by Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, made up of B&W, URS and EnergySolutions.