The lure of a potential 10-year, $4 billion support services contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state prompted some of the biggest names within the Department of Energy weapons cleanup complex to sign up for an information session last week on a draft request for proposals for the work.
The incumbent contract is held by Mission Support Alliance, a partnership of Leidos, Jacobs Engineering, and Centerra Group. The current contract expires on May 25, 2019.
The 100-plus names registered to attend the Dec. 11-13 information sessions and meetings included multiple representatives of Leidos and Centerra. While it didn’t appear, anybody registered under the Jacobs Engineering name, there were several people registered for CH2M — which on Friday became a wholly owned subsidiary of Jacobs with completion of a corporate merger.
Some other familiar names within the DOE vendor community that signed up to learn more about the draft RFP included: AREVA, Atkins, Booz Allen, BWX Technologies, Fluor, Huntington Ingalls, Navarro Research and Engineering, Parsons, Perma-Fix, Veolia Nuclear, and Wastren Advantage.
The names for the Hanford Mission Essential Services Contract (HMESEC) draft RFP pre-solicitation activities, which included a site tour, were listed on the procurement website set up by the DOE Office of Environmental Management’s Consolidated Business Center.
The contract would include services ranging from security, land management, and information technology to management of the Hazardous Material Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) training site.
The Energy Department has recently said it wants to consider feedback on an “alternate cost model” that could possibly use “static” or “historical” scopes of work by Hanford contractors. Such an approach could reduce the amount of paperwork bidders must prepare, DOE said in a Dec. 8 notice on the website. DOE says the input could be useful for this and future procurements.
Comments on all aspects of the draft RFP, except cost models, are due by Jan. 8. Comments on cost models are due by Jan. 19.
