The Energy Department has agreed to a contract extension lasting as long as two years for the incumbent remediation vendor at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced Monday it will exercise a one-year extension to keep URS/CH2M Hill Oak Ridge (UCOR) on the job thorough July 2021. That would be followed by up to two six-month options.
The federal agency did not immediately say how much the potential two-year extension would be worth. The current $3.3 billion contract held by the Amentum-Jacobs joint venture started in August 2011 and is set to expire July 31.
The Energy Department has said it could by November issue a request for proposals for a new Oak Ridge Site cleanup contract. The eventual award could run for up to 10 years and be worth $6 billion.
“UCOR has been a tremendous partner since they began their work here in 2011, and their efforts have aided us in reaching our biggest achievements to date,” Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management Manager Jay Mullis said in the release.
The vendor is winding down remediation of the East Tennessee Technology Park, the former K-25 uranium enrichment complex, which includes removing old buildings and disposing of waste.
The contractor is now shifting its ETTP workforce to projects at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex, UCOR President and CEO Ken Rueter said in Monday’s press release. The Y-12 Complex is overseen by the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration.
The Office of Environmental Management has suggested there is probably 30 years of remediation remaining at the Oak Ridge Site, including dismantling mercury-laden buildings and groundwater remediation.
