Publications: Weapons Cleanup Monitor

The U.S. Energy Department’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center on Thursday posted a draft request for proposals (RFP) for a contract potentially worth $3 billion for nationwide deactivation, decommissioning, and removal services. The Energy Department is issuing a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, using firm-fixed-price or cost-reimbursement task orders over a 10-year period. Comments are due […]

Nine containers of transuranic waste stored at Area G of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico did not, as of late July, meet the acceptance criteria for disposal further south at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The situation was cited in a nonconformance report from the U.S. Energy Department’s Carlsbad Field Office, […]

The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (CBCA) is again telling the U.S. Energy Department to pay a former cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory more than $33 million in fees. In an Aug. 8 ruling, a three-judge panel for the CBCA said the federal agency’s reasoning for failing to pay CH2M-WG Idaho (CWI) the […]

The contractor that operates the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina has mismanaged security incident reports over the past two years, with problems ranging from late submission of documents to the federal agency to providing incomplete information when they are delivered. In one instance, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) was supposed […]

A U.S. Department of Energy nuclear cleanup manager at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has been placed on administration leave, though the cause has not been made clear. The Los Alamos Reporter reported Wednesday that DOE Office of Environmental Management employee David Rhodes is on leave pending an unspecified investigation. “The New […]

The security provider at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina is expected to receive a four-month contract extension ahead of the end of its current deal on Oct. 7. Florida-based Centerra could also secure another eight months on the job. That would come via two more four-month extensions, keeping the […]

More than a year after winning the contract the first time around, a Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) affiliate is again being tapped to provide the U.S. Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) with technical support services. The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management announced Aug. 22 that Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Enterprise Technical Assistance Services (E-TAS) […]

The U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management has received 117 questions from prospective bidders on the next remediation contract for the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). The office posted the latest tranche of questions Monday on the potential 10-year, $350 million successor award to the business held through January 2020 by Navarro Research and […]

The U.S. Energy Department expects in coming years to speed up the rate of waste emplacement at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico to 14 shipments per week, according to a newly released draft five-year strategic plan for the facility. That would rise from a current rate of less than 10 shipments per […]

Jacobs Engineering announced on Aug. 20 it would pay £250 million ($304.5 million) to acquire the nuclear business of the Scotland-based John Wood Group. The deal is expected to be sealed in the first quarter of 2020, pending regulatory approval in the United Kingdom, according to the companies. The acquisition will bring proprietary technology and […]

The U.S. Energy Department and its prime contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico on Aug. 21 announced a $75 million award for a subcontractor to build a new underground utility shaft. The contract went to Harrison Western-Shaft Sinkers Joint Venture, the DOE Carlsbad Field Office and AECOM-led Nuclear Waste Partnership said […]

While there are alternatives to vitrifying all low-activity radioactive waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the U.S. Energy Department should do more vetting before committing to one or more of those options, according to a new assessment from a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine panel. The fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization […]

Bechtel National has settled litigation brought by a former worker at the Waste Treatment Plant the company is building at the U.S. Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state. “The parties have arrived at a mutually satisfactory resolution of the case,” Bechtel spokeswoman Staci West said by email on Aug. 25. She declined to say […]

Boston Government Services disclosed Tuesday it is partnering with Cincinnati-based Trinity Engineering Associates in the BTP Services joint venture that on July 31 won a potential $49.5 million technical support services contract from the Energy Department. Oak Ridge-based Boston Government Services previously said it is majority owner of the partnership. Headed by founder and President […]

Weapons Complex Monitor took a break over the past two weeks for Congress’ annual summer recess. Our affiliate publication, Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, kept up on the latest news around the nuclear security enterprise and its industry partners. Here’s a recap of what happened while we were out. WIPP Contractor Gets New Leadership The contractor […]

The U.S. Energy Department is extending the current contracts for both radioactive-waste tank operations and Central Plateau cleanup at the Hanford Site in Washington state for up to one year while it readies new awards. The AECOM-led incumbent vendor managing underground radioactive waste tanks at the Hanford Site in Washington said in an Aug. 19 […]

The U.S. Energy Department is giving contractors an extra month to submit their bids for the next environmental remediation contract at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). The deadline for requests for proposals (RFP) for the Nevada Environmental Program Services contract, originally set for Aug. 21, has been being pushed back to 4 p.m. ET […]

The ExchangeMonitor is heading into its annual August recess, and Weapons Complex Monitor will not be published during the second and third full weeks of the month. We’ll still be in the office, so keep the news tips coming, and look for the next weekly newsletter in your inbox on Friday, Aug. 30.

President Donald Trump on on Aug. 2 signed H.R. 3877, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, into law after the bill passed the House July 25 and the Senate Aug. 1. The legislation suspends the debt limit through July 31, 2021, and sets defense spending toplines at $738 billion for fiscal 2020 and $741.5 billion […]

One of three plaintiffs is continuing mediation in hopes of reaching a settlement in a lawsuit against the New Mexico Environment Department over calculating underground waste volume at the U.S. Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) filed the request for extended mediation July 31 with the New Mexico […]

BWX Technologies expects to share in high-dollar contracts at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, but is tempering its 2019 earnings outlook due to the slower-than-expected pace of awards. The company is lowering its full-year operating income guidance for the Nuclear Services Group, which includes BWXT’s work for the DOE nuclear cleanup office that […]

Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering hopes to win at least one of two Energy Department awards for potential 10-year, multibillion-dollar contracts at the Hanford Site in Washington state, including one where it is the incumbent vendor. Jacobs Chairman and CEO Steve Demetriou said Monday he anticipates DOE will award the Central Plateau Cleanup Contract at Hanford soon, […]

A federal judge this week dismissed a key component in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by an African-American woman who says she was unfairly terminated, and subsequently not rehired, by the liquid waste management contractor for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. In her order, U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs […]

The top brass at AECOM said this week it has received plenty of positive feedback since announcing June 17 that it would spin off the business segment that contracts with the Department of Energy and other federal agencies. “We are moving ahead of schedule” toward separating the Management Services line into its own publicly traded […]

The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) expects by the end of this month to receive additional U.S. Energy Department information on numerous shipments of mislabeled radioactive waste to the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). After reviewing the latest material from DOE, the state “will determine whether the material is stable in the current disposal […]

The U.S. Energy Department on Tuesday issued a sources sought/request for information for remediation of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and the Kesselring Site, both in New York state. The agency wants to gauge small business interest in a potential contract that includes tearing down and removing contaminated facilities, along with waste management services, at […]

The Richland Operations Office for the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state has extended the comment period on a cost and engineering report for hazard mitigation at the Plutonium Uranium Extraction (PUREX) Plant until Aug. 17. The original comment deadline was Aug. 2 for the engineering evaluation/cost analysis (EE/CA). The federal agency announced the […]

Perma-Fix Environmental Services on Thursday reported a 30.2% spike in its second-quarter revenue, from $13.2 million in 2018 to $17.1 million in 2019. That encompassed a 75.4% sales boost in the Atlanta-based company’s services business, from $4 million last year to $7 million in the latest reporting period, along with a more modest 10.4% revenue […]