Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
6/27/2014
North Wind late this week won the Department of Energy’s new $25.6 million task order for environmental monitoring and D&D work at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site in California. The fixed price task order is set to run for up to five years, consisting of a three-year base period and a two-year option period, and was competed under DOE’s set of small business set aside nationwide Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts. “We are extremely pleased with this contract award from DOE and are excited to offer a highly experienced team as a prime contractor on the ETEC cleanup,” North Wind President Chris Leichtweis said in a statement. “This furthers our continued efforts to extend our perfect record of executing work safely in DOE. We look forward to getting to work on the project.”
Environmental monitoring work at the site is currently performed by Boeing, which owns the broader Santa Susana Field Laboratory where ETEC is located, under a contract set to expire by Sept. 30, 2014. DOE released the final Request for Task Proposals for the work in January and is believed to have received responses from at least four teams. In addition to North Wind, that includes Gonzales-Stoller Remediation Services, LLC, Dynamic Management Solutions, LLC; and Perma-Fix Environmental Services. “North Wind represented the best value to the government and this project,” DOE spokesman Bill Taylor said in a written response.
Work to be performed under the new task order will include environmental remediation, deactivation and decommissioning, removal of contaminated facilities, waste management and regulatory services, according to DOE. The Department has said it will not move forward with the remaining D&D activities and soil cleanup at the ETEC site until the final environmental impact statement is completed for cleanup work at the site. DOE has said it expects to issue a draft EIS in late 2014 and a final EIS in the fall of 2015. A consent order with California calls for much of the remediation to be completed by 2017. “The first year of the contract will focus on oversight and maintenance of DOE owned buildings in Area IV and groundwater monitoring in Area IV,” DOE spokesman Taylor said in February.