The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management on Wednesday announced a set of nine contracts to provide nationwide deactivation, decommissioning, and removal (DD&R) services for excess facilities.
The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts have a 10-year ordering period and collectively have a maximum value of $3 billion, the Energy Department said in a press release.
Winners of the business are:
- APTIM Federal Services of Alexandria, Va.;
- Atkins Nuclear Secured of Oak Ridge, Tenn.;
- BWXT Field Services of Lynchburg, Va.;
- D2R Services, of Aiken, S.C.;
- Fluor Federal of Greenville, S.C.;
- Jacobs Technology of Tullahoma, Tenn.;
- Nationwide Remediation Partners of Newport News, Va.;
- Orano Federal Services of Charlotte, N.C.; and,
- Westinghouse Government Services of Hopkins, S.C.
The nine companies are now eligible to receive specific task orders under the total procurement package.
The contracts will support tearing down retired and deteriorating buildings across the Energy Department nuclear complex – including those owned by DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the Office of Naval Reactors, and the Office of Science. Other DOE offices or federal agencies requesting EM assistance could be involved as well, the release says.
First in line under the program is expected to be Building 251 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. It was used for more than 25 years until 1981 to provide heavy-element nuclear tracers to support underground testing of nuclear devices, according to DOE. The Building 251 contractor could be selected by the end of the year and the removal should be complete two years after that, DOE has said.
In an October 2018 DOE report to Congress, then-Energy Secretary Rick Perry said there were roughly 1,600 aging, excess facilities that are no longer used at federal nuclear sites.
