Navarro-led Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration is scheduled to take over the 222-S Laboratory soon from two separate contractors, Veolia and Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions, at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state.
Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration (HLMI), a joint venture of Oak Ridge, Tenn.,-based Navarro and Gaithersburg, Md., -based Advanced Technologies and Laboratories International, started its 100-day transition on Jan. 5, which should be complete this Thursday, April 15.
Last September the team was awarded the potential $389 million contract with a five-year base and two one-year option periods.
The Navarro-led team joins Amentum-led Central Plateau Cleanup and landlord services provider, Leidos-led Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, as new contractors starting at Hanford this year. The other two teams finished their transitions in January.
Veolia has a contract, now valued at $72 million, for laboratory analysis and testing and the work began in September 2015 under Wastren Advantage, later bought by Veolia. Laboratory operations have been handled through Hanford tank manager Washington River Protection Solutions. The Amentum-led tank contractor Washington River Protection Solutions continues to be in charge of retrieval and treatment of underground radioactive waste tanks at the former plutonium production complex.
Amentum is keeping a hand 222-S operations by serving as the “critical subcontractor” to the HLMI team, according to the joint venture’s website.
“Team members have worked together in the previous 222-S Laboratory operations contract and the Nevada National Security Site environmental remediation contract,” according to the Navarro-led team’s website. “All HLMI team members have experience working at the Hanford site.”
