The waiting game for re-award of a multibillion-dollar contract for liquid waste management at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina might be over soon, an AECOM executive said Tuesday.
“We expect the Savannah River Site to be awarded any day now,” Chief Operating Officer Randall Wotring said during the company’s quarterly earnings call.
More broadly, the Los Angeles-based engineering and infrastructure provider is confident in certain bids it has under consideration now at DOE and the Department of Defense, the COO told financial analysts. He said “some news about that particular bid” at Savannah River could happen soon. Wotring also suggested AECOM will be an active bidder not just on DOE cleanup contracts, but also on “defense-type projects” at the department’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration.
The Energy Department in October 2017 issued a $4.7 billion SRS liquid waste contract to Savannah River EcoManagement, a partnership of BWX Technologies, Bechtel, and Honeywell.
However, the Government Accountability Office in February 2018 upheld a bid protest by an AECOM-CH2M bidding team. The Energy Department that spring asked the original three bidders, including a Fluor-Westinghouse venture, to submit updated proposals. Rumors of the new award have popped up occasionally since then.
Wotring noted AECOM-led Savannah River Remediation, which continues to oversee waste management at SRS under an Energy Department extension scheduled to expire March 31, last week received an “excellent” performance rating. The other partners in the venture are BWXT, Bechtel, and CH2M.
