The Department of Energy is just days from sealing a one-year extension for the management and operations contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, a senior official said Monday.
“As you know the M&O contract expires on 31 July and any day now we’ll have an extension signed,” Michael Budney, manager of DOE’s Savannah River Operations Office, said during a meeting of the federally chartered Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board. “It better be any day now that we have that extension signed to take that contract out for another year as we go through the solicitation process.”
Incumbent Savannah River Nuclear Solutions is approaching the end of the last option period for a contract worth $9.5 billion. The contractor is led by Fluor, with partners Stoller Newport News Nuclear and Honeywell.
There was no word at deadline Friday for Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor on whether the extension had been sealed.
The contract covers operation of nuclear-material facilities for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), management of the Savannah River National Laboratory and some environmental remediation missions.
Further details of the contract extension were not immediately available. The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, which oversees the contract, would not comment on the procurement.
Environmental Management has not yet issued a draft request for proposals for the next management and operations contract. The next step is an Aug. 1 DOE “technical workshop” in Augusta, Ga., covering the scope of work covered by the contract, according to Budney. The intent is to “make sure all the potential bidders understand what we do that this site,” he said.
