The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management is starting its preliminary market research into the next phase of legacy cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
In a Monday procurement notice, the Environmental Management office issued a sources sought/request for information on Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract II.
“No solicitation exists at this time,” DOE said in materials linked with the notice in the online System for Award Management. But the agency is starting to look into a follow-on agreement for Los Alamos remediation.
Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) has a contract currently valued at $2 billion that started in April 2018 and is slated to run through April 2026. At the end of N3B’s five-year base period, DOE picked up a three-year option in May 2023 to keep the cleanup around into 2026.
While the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) owns the laboratory and oversees the nuclear weapons-related work, Environmental Management is in charge of legacy cleanup from the past nuclear research. This includes decommissioning old facilities and preparing transuranic waste for shipment to DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
All capability statements and questions about the sources sought/information request should be emailed by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 5 to [email protected].
The point of contact is contracting officer Clare Rexroad.
