CHPRC Seeking Companies to Perform Construction Support Services
WC Monitor
7/25/2014
CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. is seeking companies to perform “safety significant” construction support services. Late this week, CHPRC issued a Request for Proposals for a planned set of multiple basic ordering agreements to facilitate the award of “NQA-1/Safety Significant services” to be performed by the contractors. The BOAs, which are being competed on an unrestricted basis, would last for two years, from mid-September 2014 to Sept. 30, 2016, with an option to extend through Sept. 30, 2018. Proposals are due by July 31, with CHPRC currently expecting to complete evaluations by Aug. 21 and make awards by Sept. 11.
Most Nonunion WSCF Workers Have Found Other Jobs at Site
WC Monitor
7/25/2014
The majority of the nonunion workers at Hanford’s Waste Sampling and Characterization Facility at Hanford have found jobs within Mission Support Alliance or elsewhere at Hanford, said Deanna Hawkins, spokeswoman for Mission Support Alliance. MSA recently approved four voluntary layoffs for employees associated with the laboratory, which is being shut down. If additional layoffs are needed, they will be announced in September. About 75 people have been employed to do work associated with the lab. That includes 34 union workers, who will be eligible to take the jobs of other Hanford union workers with less seniority in a "bump and roll." A few employees also have taken retirement.
Hawkins said the success in placing nonunion workers at other jobs is because of the work of human resources staff at MSA and the Department of Energy to make sure the employees were considered for any possible position elsewhere at Hanford. DOE announced in March that it planned to stop operating the facility in central Hanford to save money. An average savings of $12 million a year is anticipated by DOE. Laboratory samples are being sent to labs outside Hanford.
