The Energy Department said Thursday it has awarded Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership — a CH2M-led team that also includes Fluor Corp. and BWX Technologies — a contract worth about $1.5 billion over 10 years, including options, to deactivate and remediate the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant near Paducah, Ky.
DOE received four bids for the work, according to a late-Thursday press release.
Under the contract, Four Rivers Nuclear Parntership will perform:
- Facility characterization and stabilization, including deposit/hold-up removal, removal of all fire loading, isolating systems and facility from utilities
- Groundwater remediation
- Waste operations
- Utility operations
- Surveillance and maintenance
Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership’s cost-plus-award-fee contract includes an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract line item, DOE said. The pact has a five-year base period with a three-year option and a two-year option.
The new partnership will replace incumbent Fluor Federal Services, which was set to wrap up a roughly three-year, $420 million Paducah GDP Deactivation contract on July 21.
