More than 45 people registered for the Jan. 24 site tour and industry briefing on the Tank Closure Contract at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, including some big contractors in the weapons complex.
Companies represented at the gathering include: AECOM; AVANTech; Bechtel; Booz Allen Hamilton; BWX Technologies; Columbia Energy and Environmental Services; Fluor; Honeywell; Jacobs; James Fischer Technologies; Longenecker and Associates; Navarro Research and Engineering; S&R Sheet Metal; TerraGraphics Environmental; Tradewind Services; and Veolia Nuclear Solutions Federal Services.
The names were recently posted on the website, along with a slide presentation on the 177 tanks covered under the contract – 149 single-shell tanks and 28 double-shell tanks.
The current tank-farm manager, AECOM-led Washington River Protection Solutions, will remain on the job at least until September after receiving last fall a one-year, $629 million extension to its 10-year, $6.3 billion contract. The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to issue a final request for proposals by the end of this month, with hopes of issuing a new contract by mid-2020.
DOE has sought industry feedback on a master indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for tank closure that would implement the end state contract approach, which DOE has said will be more flexible and offer higher potential fees for contractors than many of the existing contracts across the weapons complex.
