On Tuesday the Department of Energy rolled out a draft solicitation for the next stage of remediation at the West Valley Demonstration Project in Western New York, a contract potentially worth $3 billion over a decade.
The new indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract would replace the existing pact held by a team of Jacobs and BWX Technologies team, CH2M Hill-BWXT West Valley. The incumbent contract began in August 2011, is valued at $989 million and expires Feb. 28, 2025.
Prospective bidders have until Oct. 2 to file written comments on the draft request for proposals (RFP). DOE plans to hold a pre-solicitation conference, site tour, and one-on-one sessions with potential industry suitors in late September.
Those sessions are currently scheduled Sept. 21-22 and Sept. 20 could be added if necessary, according to the draft RFP documents.
The new contract ordering period will be 10 years and will initially include a 120-day contract transition period followed by a 180-day implementation period task order. If DOE is pleased with the way things are going at the end of the 10-years, it can tack on an additional five years, according to the cover letter for the draft RFP.
DOE issued a request for information in February for what it calls Phase 1B of cleanup at the West Valley Demonstration Project.
The 200-acre West Valley site, located within the Western New York Nuclear Service Center, is owned by the state but DOE has responsibility to remediate the site and also pays 90% of the cleanup costs. For six-years, ending in 1972, Nuclear Fuel Services ran a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at West Valley.
