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.
BTP Services is a joint venture majority-owned by Oak Ridge-based Boston Government Services. The Energy Department declined to reveal the identity of the other partners.
The founder president of Boston Government Services, Harry Boston, said by phone Thursday he did not want to elaborate on the contract award until the 60-day window for bid protests closes.
In addition to the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management, Boston Government Services’ website lists clients including the DOE Office of Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth.
Separately, Aleut Aerospace Engineering won a potential five-year, $9 million contract for waste tracking and communications (TRANSCOM) 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 of 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.
Aleut’s website indicates it is an Alaska native corporation that has done information technology work for the Advanced Space Operations School at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.
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.
