WC Monitor
8/1/2014
IN THE INDUSTRY
ARS Aleut Remediation, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of ARS International, LLC, has received certification to participate in the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program, the company announced this week. The certification will allow AAR to purse contracting opportunities set-aside for 8(a) firms. “AAR looks forward to the opportunity to bring our corporate experience providing environmental characterization, remediation and demolition services to our current and new clients while affording them the opportunity to achieve their 8(a) SDB utilization goals,” ARS Aleut Remediation General Manager R. Steven Shirley said in a release.
Alliant Corporation has recently won a task order to perform Limited Phase 1 Site Characterization activities for the proposed Environmental Management Disposal Facility at Oak Ridge, the company announced late last week. The task order was awarded under Alliant’s five-year blanket purchase agreement for Characterization and Sampling services with the U.S. Department of Energy. Alliant’s subcontractors on the new task order include Oak Ridge Associated Universities and M&W Drilling, LLC.
Boston Government Services, LLC, won this week a new contract to provide support services to the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. The contract is set to run for 36 months, and is estimated to be worth approximately $4 million. Work to be performed under the contract, according to DOE, includes “support services for the definition, design, acquisition, implementation, operation, and maintenance of the Office of Packaging and Transportation’s (EM-33) Automated Transportation Management Systems (ATMS) or its next generation replacement in the following areas: Support to Automated Transportation Management System, RADCALC Support, and Transportation Operations Support.”
Washington Closure Hanford and its subcontractor employees have worked 4 million hours without a lost workday due to injury for the second time since beginning work on the River Corridor Closure Project in 2005. It has taken the approximately 750 workers about two years to hit the milestone, announced this week. “They routinely demonstrate their commitment to safety while tackling hazardous and changing conditions on a daily basis,” said Scott Sax, Washington Closure president.
