A second unsuccessful bidder is now challenging the Department of Energy’s decision to award the new Moab cleanup contract to Portage. Gonzales-Stoller Remediation Services, LLC, filed a protest over the award with the Government Accountability Office on Nov. 25, just days after TPMC-EnergySolutions Environmental Services, LLC, filed one on Nov. 23. The GAO, which made the two protests public yesterday, is set to make its decisions by early March. At issue is DOE’s new contract to continue the Moab uranium mill tailings remediation project, which is valued at approximately $120 million over five years, with work to entail the removal of approximately 3 million tons of material to a nearby disposal cell. According to DOE, a total of six bids were submitted on the new Moab contract, which was completed under the Department’s set of small business set-aside national Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity cleanup contracts.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓