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 webcast meeting of the 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.
The contract covers management of the Savannah River National Laboratory, some environmental remediation missions (though not liquid waste management, a separate contract currently held by Savannah River Remediation), and operating nuclear-material facilities for the Energy Department’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
Further details of the contract extension were not immediately available. The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management, which oversees the contract, said it does not comment on active procurements.
The Environmental Management office has not yet issued a draft request for proposals for the follow-on management and operations contract. The next step is an Aug. 1 DOE “technical workshop” 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.
