Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
2/20/2015
Gearing up for the upcoming procurement for a new contract for legacy cleanup work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Department of Energy plans to hold an industry day March 3 in Pojoaque, N.M. DOE announced last fall plans to shift management of the legacy cleanup work at LANL to the Office of Environmental Management from the National Nuclear Security Administration. In the next month, EM plans to finalize a 12-to-24 month bridge contract to current LANL contractor Los Alamos National Security, LLC, to support cleanup activities during the procurement. “The goal of this Industry Day event is to inform interested parties of the process that will be followed to procure the new ‘Los Alamos LCCP – Post Fiscal Year 2016 Contract(s)’ and provide an overview of the general scope for these potential new procurement,” states a DOE notice issued late this week.
Cleanup activities at Los Alamos have been overseen by the NNSA Los Alamos Field Office but funded by EM. But DOE’s approach for managing the Los Alamos cleanup fell under new scrutiny in the wake of findings that issues with transuranic waste processing at Los Alamos were a factor in a radiological release that occurred in February 2014 at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. In September, the New Mexico Environment Department listed having EM in charge of the legacy cleanup work at Los Alamos as one of the state’s conditions for restarting operations at WIPP, and later that month, DOE officially announced it would move forward with developing a plan for the management shift.
