The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday gave prospective vendors a few days more to bid on the contract for a nuclear cleanup project around St. Louis, Mo.
The deadline for proposals for the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) project has been pushed back from May 9 to 2 p.m. Central time on May 14, according to the latest amendment to the solicitation issued last month.
The Army Corps hopes this year to issue a single-award task order for remediation operations covering two locations: the St. Louis Downtown Site, contaminated by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works uranium processing operations for the federal government from 1942 to 1957; and the St. Louis North County Sites, which cover several properties that for decades stored waste residues from the Mallinckrodt operation. The work would involve field engineering, remediation of contaminated soil, management services, and radiological and safety support.
“The work anticipated under this contract is primarily for, but not limited to, low level radioactive contaminated material removal,” according to the April 8 solicitation. “Radiological contaminates are primarily thorium, radium and uranium, with co-located non-radiological contamination such as cadmium and arsenic.”
HydroGeoLogic, of Reston, Va., holds the current contract, which is worth $50 million through March 2021, including all options.
