Brian Bradley
NS&D Monitor
09/25/2015
The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management has awarded Los Alamos National Laboratory contractor Los Alamos National Security a one-year cost-plus-award fee “bridge” contract with a maximum value of $309.8 million and two six-month options for legacy cleanup activities at the New Mexico facility. Oversight of LANL legacy waste cleanup operations is shifting from the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration to EM, and will be effective around fall 2018, two officials with knowledge of the situation said Tuesday. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record. LANS did not respond to requests for comment.
LANS has managed legacy cleanup work at Los Alamos since 2006 as part of its lab management and operations contract with the NNSA. Christine Gelles, EM associate deputy assistant secretary for waste management, said earlier this month the administrative shift to EM was designed, in part, to allow LANS to focus on its national security mission at the site, and to give more attention to the lab’s EM mission.
“[W]e’re working hard to establish our own prime contract with the existing incumbent M&O, we call that a bridge contract,” Gelles said. “And it’s the bridge because we’re in the midst of a competitive acquisition process that will hopefully arrive no later than two years from now with at least one if not more prime contracts to conduct our cleanup moving forward.” The Office of Environmental Management in February issued a request for information for potential contracts for legacy cleanup operations at Los Alamos, which includes transuranic waste stabilization, groundwater and soil remediation, and facility decommissioning and demolition. At the time it said it hoped to seal a 12-24 month contract for Los Alamos National Security to continue to support the remediation work. The lab did not respond to a request for comment.
Technical Support Contract
DOE yesterday also announced the award of an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to DLE Technical Services for technical support to the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center and EM-Los Alamos. The contract will last five years and has a maximum value of $4 million. Firm-fixed-price and time-and-material task orders will be issued from the basic contract, DOE said in a press release. The contractor will provide services including cost estimating, project management, technical/subject matter expert support, and land transfers.
