The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management issued its latest procurement schedule on Wednesday, but it lists no timeline for awarding the long-awaited liquid waste management contract for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
The multibillion-dollar re-award is now listed as “TBD,” or to be determined. When the procurement schedule was updated in November, it indicated the department could issue the contract that month.
Speculation on the SRS contract, which could be worth $6 billion for waste storage and processing, has become a popular hobby within the weapons complex. First awarded in October 2017 to BWX Technologies-led Savannah River EcoManagement, the contract unraveled in February 2018 when the Government Accountability Office upheld a bid protest from a competing AECOM-CH2M team. This past spring those two teams, plus a Fluor-Westinghouse venture, submitted updated last and best offers to DOE.
For now, AECOM-led Savannah River Remediation remains in charge of SRS liquid waste, thanks to its latest contract extension through March. In additions to AECOM, SRR’s other members are Bechtel, CH2M, and BWX Technologies.
The new procurement schedule does indicate the potential $6 billion Hanford Mission Essential Services Contract could be awarded by the end of this year. The business is currently held by Leidos-led Mission Support Alliance.
In addition, the Nevada Environmental Program Services Contract, potentially worth $400 million, could also be issued by the end of the year. Navarro holds the current contract.
