More than 20 companies expressed interest to the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management in landing a slice of various nuclear remediation projects set aside for small business.
Twenty-one signed up by Dec. 20 to be on an “interested vendors” list, for the Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning and Removal procurement, according to a DOE Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center document.
The Environmental Management office has said it is evaluating the possibility of multiple award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts for this work. The agency had not decided as of Monday how many awards it might make or how long the performance periods of those awards would be.
Tasks under the contract or contracts could include nuclear facility deactivation and decommissioning, soil and water remediation as well as spent nuclear fuel stabilization and disposal and safeguards and security, according to an elements of scope document.
Prospective bidders are listed as Acuity International, Alliant, ARS Aleut Remediation, Babcock Services, Engineering/Remediation Resources Group, HGL, HukariAscendent, Independent Strategic Management Solutions, Inspection Experts, James Fisher Technologies, Longenecker & Associates, North Wind Portage, Olympus Technical Services, Perma‐Fix Environmental Services, Sigma‐NAC Nuclear Solution, Smith Environmental and Engineering, Spray Systems Environmental, Strata‐G, Swift & Staley, TSSD Services and VNS Federal Services.
The request for proposals for the small business set-aside could be out as early as next month, DOE has said. The agency has encouraged small businesses to form teams to compete for various work projects at sites run by Environmental Management, the National Nuclear Security Administration along with properties run by the DOE Office of Science and Office of Naval Reactors.
A website for the procurement can be found here.
