The legacy cleanup contractor for the U.S. Energy Department’s Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in New Mexico is seeking a firm to monitor vapor levels around certain disposal areas.
Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) on Monday issued an updated request for proposals at www.fbo.gov for a subcontractor to collect and report on material disposal area (MDA) vapor levels.
Bids on the two-year, firm-fixed-price contract are due by 3 p.m. Mountain time on Sept. 23, by email to Contractor’s Representative Heather Evans at [email protected].
The contract award will be based on a combination of factors including technical compliance, experience, key personnel, and cost. N3B “will make the award that is most advantageous to the government by evaluating and comparing factors in addition to price,” according to the RFP.
The lab manager could announce its contract award as soon as Oct. 7, with the first round of vapor sampling to start by the end of November.
The winning vendor will monitor vapor levels around MDA C and MDA L, as required by the New Mexico Environment Department, by collecting samples on a semiannual basis. The subcontractor will be looking for evidence of tritium and volatile organic compounds in the vapor samples.
There are more than two dozen MDAs at Los Alamos. Most hold waste in pits, trenches, and shafts.
The RFP did not cite a cost estimate for the project.
Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos in April 2018 began work on the 10-year, $1.38 billion legacy cleanup contract for Los Alamos. The contractor is charged with remediating hundreds of sites, including waste sites, waste disposal areas, and a groundwater chromium plume, and packaging and sending transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.
