The Battelle-led prime of the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory is shopping for a subcontractor to collect and ship sand contaminated with mercury to a Veolia waste facility in Gum Springs, Ark., from the Upton, N.Y., lab, according to a solicitation posted online Tuesday.
Questions about the work are due by June 5 and proposals should be filed by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on June 14, according to the notice posted on the government’s System for Award Management (SAM.gov).
The winning contractor will “provide disposal, railroad logistics and transportation for mercury- contaminated sand and debris,” for management contractor Brookhaven Science Associates, according to the notice. The contractor is a partnership between the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University, and Battelle, according to its website.
The work should be done by Dec. 31, according to the solicitation.
Brookhaven National Laboratory was set up in 1947 in Eastern Long Island to advance the civilian applications of nuclear power. The DOE Office of Environmental Management formally declared Brookhaven remediated and removed it from the list of nuclear cleanup sites in March 2022.
DOE has still not selected a long-term storage site for elemental mercury.
