AECOM, BWX Technologies, and Fluor Corp. all bid on a 10-year liquid waste management contract at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., that could be worth $4 billion to $6 billion, sources told Weapons Complex Monitor.
The Energy Department would not authorize anyone to comment on the record for this story. Typically, federal agencies will not discuss the details of ongoing procurements.
Of the three bidders, only AECOM has confirmed its involvement to Weapons Complex Monitor. BWX Technologies spokesman Jud Simmons and Fluor spokeswoman Annika Toenniessen declined to comment for this story.
AECOM and BWXT are two of the partners in the current SRS liquid cleanup incumbent, Savannah River Remediation, along with Bechtel and CH2M. The AECOM-led conglomerate’s eight-year, $4 billion contract expires on June 30, 2017.
Bechtel Corp. is said to be a junior partner on one of the bids.
On Tuesday, the top DOE official at the Savannah River Site said only that the agency had received bids.
“Proposals have been submitted on the new liquid waste contract and are under DOE review,” Jack Craig, DOE’s Savannah River Site manager, said in prepared remarks to the agency-chartered SRS Citizens Advisory Board. “A new contract will be awarded in the spring of 2017.”
The new contract calls for cleaning up 10 tanks worth of bulk waste, including eight in the deal’s eight-year base period, and closing down seven tank-farm tanks, including five in the base period.
The winner of the contract will also be responsible for preparing for on-site storage of some 72 million gallons of radioactive salt waste extracted from liquid tank waste by the Salt Waste Processing Facility built by Parsons Government Services. That includes 42 million gallons of salt waste in the eight-year base period.
