Jeremy L. Dillon
RW Monitor
5/2/2014
IN DOE
The deadline to respond to a Sources Sought Synopsis/Request For Information related to the treatment of low-level radioactive waste and mixed low-level waste by the Department of Energy has been extended by a week. The previous deadline was April 28, but the new deadline will be May 5, according to a modification to the Sources Sought Synopsis posted late last week on the FedBizOpps website. The current set of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts for waste treatment services ends next year in June. Interested companies are asked to submit a 20-page capability statement to be assessed by DOE.
The DOE Idaho Operations Office has extended by a week the deadline for interested firms to respond to a Sources Sought notice to transport spent nuclear fuel from non-commercial research reactors to the Idaho National Laboratory. DOE is seeking information to determine the possible availability of small businesses to perform the planned contract. The original due date for capability statements was May 5, but that date has been extended to May 12.
IN THE INDUSTRY
Waste Control Specialists announced this week that it has been awarded a contract to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Niskayuna, N.Y. The contract, awarded by URS Energy and Construction, the prime contractor at the Department of Energy site, calls for the transportation, treatment and disposal of low-level waste produced from the SPRU cleanup. “We are excited to support URS on this project,” WCS President Rod Baltzer said in a statement. “WCS has the broadest range of disposal capabilities in the industry. Our business approach is to provide the customer with maximum flexibility at the lowest project risk and cost. We expect to focus on these same objectives for large scale decommissioning projects in the future.”
