There is some surprise among Department of Energy contractors that the agency has not yet awarded a new contract for liquid waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, an industry source said Wednesday.
The major procurements summary from DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, as of Aug. 11, projected the new contract would be awarded sometime from August to October.
Bidding on the new contract, which could be worth $4 billion to $6 billion, closed more than a year ago.
The current contract is held by Savannah River Remediation, a team led by AECOM with partners Bechtel National, CH2M, and BWX Technologies. The work involves managing storage and ultimately disposal of roughly 35 million gallons of radioactive waste produced during Cold War nuclear weapons operations at the facility near the city of Aiken, S.C.
Savannah River Remediation started work in July 2009, and since 2015 has received contract extensions keeping it on the job to Dec. 31, 2017.
AECOM, BWX Technologies, and Fluor Corp. all bid on the 10-year liquid waste management contract, Weapons Complex Morning Briefing has previously reported. Federal agencies typically do not comment on ongoing contract solicitations.
