Parsons has rejected the Department of Energy’s ‘best and final offer’ for a new agreement for commissioning and startup of the Salt Waste Processing Facility, WC Monitor has learned. SWPF startup talks have been ongoing since last summer, when a new agreement-in-principle was reached that covered only construction. DOE and Parsons have been negotiating a new contract for SWPF since delays in the delivery of key tanks for the facility caused the project’s price tag to increase substantially. Parsons referred request for comment to DOE, which did not respond to request for comment Friday.
Last month DOE Savannah River Manager Dave Moody emphasized that a new startup deal is not necessary to begin operations of the plant. “We have a contract for commissioning and one year of hot startup and we are proceeding down that path with that contract,” Moody said at a Congressional Nuclear Cleanup Caucus Briefing. “So there is no deadline that we have to meet on the next negotiation. If we can mutually agree to an acceleration moving that forward we can do it, but our current contract allows us to move forward, finishing construction early and then moving right into commissioning.”
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