DOE Anticipates Issuing Final DUF6 Conversion Facilities RFP Within Two Weeks

The Department of Energy plans to issue the final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Operation of the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Facilities within the next two weeks, DOE announced last week. According to the announcement, the Department anticipates issuing the RFP in the next 15 to 20 days as of Aug. 17. DOE has previously said that it expects to award the new contract “in or about” the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2016. The two DUF6 conversion plants, located at DOE’s Portsmouth and Paducah sites, are currently managed by BWXT Conversion Services, LLC, under a contract set to expire in the fall of 2016, following an extension to the contract. The plants are intended to help disposition more than 700,000 metric tons of material stored in thousands of cylinders at the two sites. The new contract is being competed on an unrestricted basis and will have cost-plus-award-fee contract line item numbers (CLINs) to cover conversion operations; and firm fixed-price CLINs to cover cylinder management activities.