The U.S. Energy Department’s nuclear cleanup office on Wednesday awarded a trio of small-business contracts that together could be worth over $62 million.
The largest of the deals, a potential $49.5 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract awarded to Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based BTP Services, is for technical support services throughout the Office of Environmental Management (EM) complex.
During the five-year ordering period, BTP could provide technical and systems support for tasks including security, emergency preparedness, decommissioning, and waste management. An Internet search did not turn up a website for BTP. But a company with its same street address and suite number, Boston Government Services, does cite Energy Department weapons complex work on its website.
In addition, Aleut Aerospace Engineering won a potential five-year, $9 million contract for waste tracking and communications (TRANSCOM) work at the DOE Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico. The Colorado Springs, Colo., company will provide around-the-clock help desk support, program administration, and related services to assist with continuous monitoring of shipments defense-related spent fuel and other waste, including transuranic waste. The contract covers shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, along with radioactive material headed to other destinations.
The current TRANSCOM contract is held by Alabama-based Ma-Chis LCITE (Ma-Chis Lower Creek Indian Tribe Enterprises).
The third contract for up to five years and $4.6 million went to Penser North America for administration of workers’ compensation claims for specified contractors at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Penser is based in Lacey, Wash., and is the incumbent administrator under a 2014 award valued at $4.3 million, which ended Wednesday.
In June, a federal court upheld a Washington state law lowering the bar for employees of a dozen contractors and subcontractors at Hanford to qualify for workers’ compensation. Affected workers no longer need to prove their illness or injury was caused by exposure to conditions at the former plutonium production complex.
