January 20, 2016

SCE Has Two Bids to Date For SONGS Decommissioning

By ExchangeMonitor

Two contractor teams have submitted bids for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s estimated $4.4 billion decommissioning general contract.

AECOM and EnergySolutions have submitted a bid together, and a Bechtel-led team has been confirmed as the second bidder in the process. San Onofre owner Southern California Edison has also said previously that it also expects a bid from Team Holtec, a subsidiary of Holtec International, but representatives from that group could not be reached for comment.

"We have submitted a bid for the SONGS Decommissioning project,” EnergySolutions spokesman Mark Walker said by email. “We submitted the bid as an AECOM/ES team. No further details of our bid are available at this time."

A source familiar with negotiations confirmed the Bechtel team’s bid. The deadline for bidding was Jan. 4.

SONGS began operations in 1968, retiring Unit 1 in 1992 and placing it into SAFSTOR. Southern California Edison retired Units 2 and 3 in 2013, when replacement steam generator issues proved too expensive to fix.

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