Plan for Los Alamos Procurements Expected to be Out in Coming Weeks

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is on track to release its plans in the coming weeks for cleanup procurements at Los Alamos National Laboratory, EM Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition and Project Management Jack Surash said at his quarterly Business Opportunity Forum. DOE is in the process of breaking out cleanup work from the Lab’s M&O contract into one or more procurements over the next one to two years, and had planned to complete its acquisition plan in early summer with draft RFPs following soon after. “Very shortly, in a matter of weeks not months, we’ll publicly release what we’re doing here quickly followed up with statements of work,” Surash said, adding later, “We might make June, we might slip into July, but it’s coming soon.”

Surash declined to provide details on the number or type of procurements at this stage. “Until I have an acquisition plan I don’t have a lot to tell you,” he said, adding later: “ They will be EM-style procurements. I don’t know if we are going to have one, two, three, four, five, six, procurements. But whatever we do we have look for well-defined performance-based scope.” DOE will look to issue fixed price contracts as much as possible, though Surash noted that EM will have a “hard time” issuing a fixed price contract for transuranic waste work.