Geiger Brothers, an Ohio-based engineering and contracting business, won a $9.9 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build the K-25 viewing platform at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, the corps announced Friday.
The award from the U.S. Army Corps’ Nashville District was posted in a Friday notice on the federal procurement website, SAM.gov.
Geiger Brothers was selected for the small-business set-aside contract over two other bidders, Global Co. LLC and WAI Construction, which both submitted bids that were about $100,000 more than the Geiger Brothers proposal, according to documents accompanying the award.
The last of the Manhattan Project and Cold War uranium enrichment structures was torn down in 2020 at the former K-25 gaseous diffusion plant, an area of the Oak Ridge Site that DOE now calls the East Tennessee Technology Park.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been seeking a small-business contractor to build the viewing platform and about 70 people from dozens of small businesses registered for an on-site visit to learn more about the project in January.
“Geiger Brothers has worked in the nuclear market ranging from new projects for enriched uranium operation related to national security to the decontamination and decommissioning of Cold War-era buildings that housed gaseous diffusion processes,” the company said on its website.
