Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) will continue managing the Savannah River Site through July 31, 2019, under a long-expected one-year, $1-billion contract extension announced Monday.
“This extension enables SRNS to continue to provide management and operating (M&O) services at SRS while DOE fosters competition for award of a follow-on competitive M&O contract,” the Department of Energy said in a press release announcing the extension. SRNS is eligible for just under $45 million in fees during the extension, according to the text of a contract modification provided by the agency.
The Department of Energy announced the extension two days before Wednesday’s planned technical workshop for companies interested in bidding for the follow-on site operations contract.
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions — led by Fluor Corp., with Huntington Ingalls Industries and Honeywell — has managed the Savannah River Site, its eponymous national lab, and the National Nuclear Security Administration’s tritium processing mission since 2008 under a management and operations contract that had been set to expire Wednesday. The contract was worth about $9.5 billion over 10 years, with options.
The Department of Energy has yet to release even a draft request for proposals for the next Savannah River Site management contract. In February, the agency said it might release the draft solicitation by the end of April.
The SRS management and operations contract does not include the site’s decades-long liquid-waste cleanup mission, which is also managed by the Environmental Management office. That work is handled under a separate contract still held by the AECOM-led Savannah River Remediation, which received an extension after bidders earlier this year protested the award of a follow-on liquid-waste contract.
The SRNS contract also does not include the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, the controversial, unfinished, over-budget plutonium disposal plant CB&I AREVA MOX Services is building under a separate National Nuclear Security Administration contract.
