The U.S. Energy Department is giving contractors an extra month to submit their bids for the next environmental remediation contract at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
The deadline for requests for proposals (RFP) for the Nevada Environmental Program Services contract, originally set for Aug. 21, has been being pushed back to 4 p.m. ET on Sept. 20. The Energy Department announced the change in an online post yesterday.
Navarro Research and Engineering owns the existing $80 million contract, which began in March 2015 and extends through January 2020.
The add-on agreement will be an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract set-aside for small businesses of up to 750 employees. Due to its embrace of task orders, the contract could be worth less than $1 million to a maximum of $350 million over 10 years, DOE has indicated.
Fee amounts for will be negotiated for each individual task order based on risk and complexity, according to the solicitation material.
Any questions on the RFP should be sent by Aug. 15 to [email protected].
A summary of RFP filing changes can be found here.
The contracting officer for the solicitation is John Blecher at [email protected].
The winning vendor needs to produce measurable results toward completion of the DOE Office of Environmental Management remediation at the Nevada National Security Site by doing the maximum amount of environmental work within the 10-year ordering period.
The selected contractor will provide characterization, deactivation and decommissioning (D&D), and soil remediation for industrial sites. The vendor will manage the Radioactive Waste Acceptance Program (RWAP) to ensure generators of low-level waste or mixed waste comply with the NNSS waste acceptance criteria. The Nevada site disposal facility accepts waste from 25 DOE-approved generator sites across the nation.
Along with Navarro, about 40 other parties attended a July 2018 industry day on the environmental project. They include: Los Alamos Technical Associates, Pro2Serve, Leidos, Veolia Nuclear Solutions-Federal Services, Longenecker & Associates, AECOM, and Atkins.
