The U.S. Energy Department is giving interested vendors four more days, until Tuesday, Oct. 8, to comment on a draft request for proposals on a nationwide deactivation, decommissioning, and removal services contract that could be worth $3 billion.
The agency’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center announced the deadline extension Tuesday on the FidBizOpps website. The procurement office in Cincinnati first posted the draft RFP on Sept. 5.
The Energy Department is considering a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, using firm-fixed-price or cost-reimbursement task orders that could amount to $3 billion over a 10-year period.
The agency held a presolicitation conference, tour, and one-on-one meetings from Sept. 24-26 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Decommissioning of Livermore’s Building 251, a facility used from the 1950s to the 1990s for experiments in research connected to underground nuclear testing, would be one of the first task orders under the contract.
Companies that signed up for the September tire-kicking included AECOM, Atkins, Bechtel, Burns & McDonnell, BWX Technologies, EnergySolutions, Huntington Ingalls, Jacobs, Navarro, North Wind, Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Veolia, and Westinghouse.
In documents that accompany the draft RFP, the Energy Department said it is gearing up for deactivation and decommissioning of nonoperating national nuclear facilities in coming years. An agreement signed in May gave DOE’s Office of Environmental Management responsibility for deactivation, decommissioning, and remediation of unneeded facilities facilities owned by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Naval Reactors.
The Naval Reactors office says it will rely upon the cleanup office’s expertise for remediation valued at more than $2.5 billion.
Comments on the draft RFP can be emailed to [email protected].
Actual proposals are not yet being sought. A final RFP will be released at a later date, the Energy Department said.
