The legacy nuclear cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico said Tuesday it recently awarded a total of $120 million in subcontracts for soil contamination work to three companies.
Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) said in a press release that Idaho-based North Wind Group will assist N3B in investigating 67 potentially contaminated sites in the Twomile and North Ancho canyons areas. North Wind is a longtime service provider within the DOE nuclear weapons complex.
In addition, Alaska-based Stampede Ventures will analyze 67 Los Alamos legacy sites in the Starmer and Upper Pajarito Canyon areas. A part of Bering Straits Native Corp., Stampede Ventures is a federal contractor that provides a variety of services including environmental assessments and field investigations, according to its website.
Arizona-based Banda Group International, which has worked with the cleanup contractor since 2020 will work primarily in Threemile Canyon, where N3B is responsible for six sites, N3B said in the press release.
“The three companies selected for these subcontracts are extremely well-suited based on their expertise, as well as the federal government’s small business-related criteria,” said Leslie Martinez, N3B’s director of acquisitions, in the release. “They’ll be working side by side with other small, local contractors who have been supporting remediation activity at the [Los Alamos National Laboratory] site for many years.”
Banda Group, a disabled veteran-owned small business, previously won a $20 million master service agreement from N3B, Banda said in a January press release.
N3B has more than seven months left on its five-year base period for a potential 10-year, $1.5-billion legacy cleanup contract at Los Alamos. The base period ends April 29, 2023.
