The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers expects to solicit bids by the end of October for a small business to build a viewing platform next to a museum at the old K-25 gaseous diffusion plant grounds at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee.
The Nashville District of the US Army Corps of Engineers intends to issue “an invitation for bid” by Oct. 31 and will hold a pre-bid site visit for interested providers on Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time at the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management, according to a Thursday notice on a federal procurement website.
The scope of work will be attached with the planned request for proposals announcement, the Corps said in the notice. The solicitation will be open to small businesses meeting a $39.5-million size limit.
Pre-registration is required by 3 p.m. Central Time on Nov. 3 for the site visit and pre-bid briefings. To register, email Robert “Todd” Allman and Dellaria Martin at [email protected] and [email protected].
Advanced approval is required for any non-U.S. citizens seeking to participate in the site visit.
The DOE Environmental Management Office and the Army Corps are working together to build the observation platform next to the K-25 History Center, DOE said earlier this year. The DOE has said it expects platform construction to be finished by the end of 2023.
Construction should start this year, within 30 days of issuance of the contract, the Army Corps said in last week’s procurement notice. Uranium enrichment ended at the Oak Ridge site in 1985 and DOE contractor URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) finished taking down the last gaseous diffusion plant structures in 2020.
