The Department of Energy has completed the amendment process for the request for proposals for the technical services contract at the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) in Tennessee, according to a notice posted Wednesday.
The RFP was issued in early October, and DOE made three amendments through Nov. 15. “No further amendments to the RFP are anticipated by DOE at this time,” the DOE notice says. “Paper copies of proposal submissions shall be delivered to the address specified in Section L.06 of the RFP. Please contact the Contracting Officer, Travis Marshall, via telephone at (513) 246-0103 or email at travis.marshall@emcbc.doe.gov in advance of delivery to advise of the anticipated delivery date and time.”
The current contract, held by Professional Project Services Inc., is due to expire on Dec. 3.
The new five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is scheduled to be awarded in fiscal 2017, which began on Oct. 1. Its value is estimated at between $43 million and $49.5 million.
The RFP is a small business set-aside and is likely to include firm-fixed-price and time-and-materials task orders, DOE has said. Services provided under the contract will include project planning and baseline support, senior management technical support, portfolio federal project director technical support, and independent government cost estimate support.
OREM oversees nuclear cleanup operations at the former uranium enrichment complex that is now the East Tennessee Technology Park, the Y-12 National Security Complex, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Former University of California executive and Department of Energy national lab hand Glenn Mara has joined the strategic advisory board of Las Vegas-based nuclear-cleanup consulting specialists Longenecker & Associates.
From 2009 to 2016, Mara was associate vice president for laboratory programs at the University of California Office of the President. In that job he led the university’s oversight of scientific and technical programs at three DOE national laboratories affiliated with the university — Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos.
Mara previously served at both Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, most recently as head of the Los Alamos weapons program from July 2006 to July 2009. Mara previously held a number of positions at Lawrence Livermore starting in 1971.
Excluding four emeritus members, Longenecker has 18 people on its advisory board. The firm specializes in consulting for the Energy Department and the agency’s Office of Environmental Management.
