The Department of Energy Thursday published its justification to extend the incumbent decommissioning contractor at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio until Sept. 30.
The move to extend Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth six months from April 1 to Sept. 30 was expected. The agency announced its intention just after Christmas. DOE published its justification for extending the incumbent without bids in an online notice in the System for Awards Management.
The public notice did not include any dollar value for the planned half-year extension. Fluor-BWXT is the “one responsible source” to do the work during this time period, according to the notice.
Fluor-BWXT has held the Decontamination and Decommissioning Contract, valued at more than $5 billion, since August 2010. In July 2023, DOE awarded a successor contract to Southern Ohio Cleanup, a team of Amentum, Fluor and Cavendish Nuclear.
But DOE is holding off on issuing a notice to proceed on the follow-up until it awards the Operations and Site Mission Support contract for both the Ohio property and the Paducah Site in Kentucky.
Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Services is being extended until that contract is awarded.
