D&D Work May be Broken Out for Small Businesses
Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
5/2/2014
As the Department of Energy moves forward with planning for a procurement for cleanup work at the Idaho site post-Fiscal Year 2015, DOE is considering combining the site’s two current cleanup contracts and separating out D&D work for small businesses, a Department official said this week. “We do recognize that our work is shrinking out there, our footprint is shrinking. So we believe we could have one contract,” Jim Cooper, deputy manager of environmental management at the DOE Idaho Operations Office, said at a House Cleanup Caucus briefing. “We are also looking at the type of work we are doing and we think there is small business work out there, especially with respect to D&D. We are looking at isolating the D&D and then having that as a direct DOE small business contract.”
The Idaho Cleanup Project, which entails much of the cleanup work at the site, is currently being performed by CH2M WG Idaho, which is made up of CH2M Hill and URS. The Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project, used to prepare transuranic and other wastes for disposition, is managed by Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, made up of B&W, URS and EnergySolutions. Both contracts are set to end in FY 2015. DOE plans to issue an acqusition strategy for the post-FY 2015 cleanup work at the end of June, with a draft request for proposals to be issued in the “early summer,” Cooper said. The post-FY 2015 scopes of work at the Idaho site are set to include spent nuclear fuel management, solid waste management, facility D&D and the Calcine Disposition Project.
