The current $44-million Carlsbad Technical Assistance Contract is set to expire this week for a North Wind subsidiary at the Department of Energy field office in New Mexico.
The DOE can exercise an option to keep North Wind Portage on board through June 3, 2021 while the Office of Environmental Management continues to look for a new technical assistance contractor. That is according to a Nov. 10 presentation on the request for proposals for a new potential new $100-million small business set-aside contract.
About 60 people representing potential bidders participated in the online meeting about the solicitation. Bids on the new contract are due Dec. 14. The winner will provide audits and technical assistance to the Carlsbad office as it oversees transport of containers of defense-related transuranic waste from DOE-approved sites to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.
In a Thursday morning email, a DOE spokesperson declined comment “at this time.”
