The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is giving contractors a few extra days to submit their proposals for two contracts.
The due date for the liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina has been pushed back by two business days, to 3 p.m. EDT on Aug. 31, according to a DOE notice posted last week. “Additionally, paper copies of proposal submissions shall be delivered to the address specified in Section L.10(c) of the Final RFP, and the offeror may email or phone the Contracting Officer to arrange any hand deliveries of proposals,” the department said.
The current contract, held by Savannah River Remediation (SRR), expires on June 30, 2017. The period of performance for the new contract is listed as April 2, 2017, to March 31, 2027. Most of the companies that partnerered for form SRR — AECOM, Bechtel, CH2M, and BWX Technologies — have indicated their interest in pursuing the new contract. The Department of Energy said the contract would be worth up to $4.6 billion and include “operations of existing radioactive liquid waste facilities for storage, treatment, stabilization, and disposal of waste; waste removal from tanks and tank closures; construction of additional saltstone disposal units; operation of the Salt Waste Processing Facility after facility commissioning, startup, and one year of operation; and liquid waste program and regulatory support.”
Meanwhile, contractors have an additional week, from Sept. 1 to Sept. 8, to file their proposals to provide support services for the West Valley Demonstration Project supplemental environmental impact statement, according to an amendment to the final RFP. In the first round of questions regarding the RFP, there were two requests for addititional time to file — to Sept. 9 and Sept. 15.
The contract covers a three-year base period and two single-year options. It is fully set aside for small businesses and involves providing technical support for a legally mandated environmental review DOE must conduct of its plan to decontaminate and demolish facilities at the former spent fuel reprocessing plant in upstate New York.
