With bids for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s combined Y-12/Pantex M&O contract due in less than a month, the agency has begun to look toward other consolidation efforts, but Principal Deputy Administrator Neile Miller told NW&M Monitor yesterday that the effort was only in its infancy. “Truly for me everything is open for discussion and I can tell you honestly, nothing is being discussed specifically right now,” Miller said. “I don’t have a group specifically looking at this but I expect to soon. We’re open to pretty much whatever ideas people have so that we can evaluate the worth of those ideas in many ways.”
One obvious potential area of consolidation involves non-nuclear production work at the Kansas City Plant and Sandia National Laboratories. The agency considered consolidating that work when it evaluated merging the Y-12/Pantex contracts, ultimately deciding that it would be best not to do so while a new home for the Kansas City Plant was being built. Miller did not offer any specifics about what the agency might consider. “All options are open,” she said. “It’s all about what are the ideas out there. Once you take the ideas you kind of rack and stack them to the ones that make the most sense, are they doable, or are they harder to do but make the most sense? You have to really look at all of that. Where do you get the biggest bang for the buck verses how much effort do you have to spend to do that and is that going to be worth it?”
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