The Energy Department on Wednesday released a request for information on a follow-up paramilitary security services contract at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C.
Centerra LLC is the incumbent SRS security contractor. Its roughly $1 billion security services for safeguard of special nuclear material contract, awarded in 2009, expires on Oct. 7, 2019.
DOE has scheduled an industry day for Aug. 14 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Augusta Hotel, 2651 Perimeter Parkway in Augusta, Ga. A community day is scheduled for Aug. 15 at the hotel.
The contract covers a host of protective duties, the RFI says, topped by preventing unauthorized access, theft, diversion, or loss of custody of special nuclear materials and key facilities at SRS.
Among other things, the work requires “a thorough knowledge of munitions list items and demilitarization techniques, as outlined in the Defense Demilitarization Manual,” according to the request for information posted online to the DOE Office of Environmental Management procurement site.
Responses are due Aug. 28 to [email protected], DOE said.
Separately DOE on Thursday released a request for information from parties interested in managing the 222-S analytical laboratory at the agency’s Hanford Site near Richland, Wash.
The lab analyzes samples of liquid waste from Hanford’s underground tank farms, which hold about 55 million gallons of high-level and low-activity liquid waste left over from Cold War plutonium production. The waste in each tank is different, so DOE collects samples to help it decide how to manage the waste, and to make sure that plans to transfer the waste from tank to tank — and eventually to the Waste Treatment Plant that will solidify the material for safer storage — are safe.
Wastren Advantage is the incumbent laboratory analysis and testing services contractor. The company’s contract, awarded in 2015, is worth about $45 million and would expire in 2020, including options. The two-year base period on Wastren’s contract expires Sept. 20, but could be extended via a trio of one-year options.
The agency plans to solidify Hanford’s high-level and low-activity waste by a court-imposed deadline of 2036. Low-activity waste treatment must start by 2023, though DOE aims to begin treatment by 2022 or perhaps even sooner, acting Assistant Energy Secretary for Enviromental Management James Owendoff wrote in an official statement published Friday.
Responses to the request for information are due Sept. 21, DOE said in the request. Those interested can email [email protected]. The agency will host a site tour at Hanford for interested parties on Aug. 29, and hold one-on-one information-exchange sessions at the site Aug. 29-30, according to the request. Those interested in the tour have until Aug. 21 to notify DOE.
