The Department Energy’s Office of Environmental Management retained a firm to audit proposals for the potential 10-year, $13 billion Tank Closure Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
A contract valued at about $415,000 was awarded to Maryland-based CohnReznick, which has done fee-reasonableness audits for DOE in the past.
The contract for the proposal audit was announced by DOE late Friday on a federal procurement website. Bid proposals on the tank contract, a successor agreement to work now handled by the AECOM-led Washington River Protection Solutions, were due March 18.
DOE issued a solicitation for the Tank Closure Contract on Feb. 14. The winner of the competition will manage risks connected with 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste held in 177 underground tanks at Hanford’s Office of River Protection. The new contractor will increasingly focus on tank closure, and build at-tank cesium removal facilities to prepare low-activity tank waste for delivery to the Waste Treatment Plant being built by Bechtel.
