The latest procurement schedule from the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management indicates draft requests for proposals for major work at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee and the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York could be issued this spring.
A draft RFP for a new Idaho Cleanup Project contract could go out this fall.
The prior timeline issued in November had targeted issuance of a draft RFP by the end of 2018 for the potential $8 billion Oak Ridge Reservation contract, which would be a follow-on of sorts to the $2.7 billion URS-CH2M Hill Oak Ridge (UCOR) decontamination and decommissioning contract. The current UCOR work focuses primarily on the East Tennessee Technology Park, the former site of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which is targeted for completion in 2020.
The UCOR contract expires in July 2020 and a new award is targeted for April 2020, as the next stage will shift more toward other parts of Oak Ridge Reservation, including Y-12 National Security Complex and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Presumably there would be a transition period between the two contracts.
The updated schedule targets an April RFP for West Valley remediation. It would be a successor agreement to the current $544 million Phase 1 decontamination and demolition contract held by CH2M Hill BWXT West Valley. The current contract is scheduled to expire in March 2020. The Energy Department is aiming for a contract award by the end of November 2019.
The incumbent West Valley vendor has torn down and shipped away waste from the vitrification plant, and has essentially completed deactivation of the Main Plant Process Building, which will be demolished under the upcoming Phase 1B cleanup contract.
The department last fall issued requests for information/sources sought filings for both West Valley and the Idaho Cleanup Project. Those two are in the early stages and no estimated value is listed for either project.
The DOE cleanup at the Idaho National Laboratory is handled by Fluor Idaho under a $1.6 billion contract running through May 2021. The agency is shooting for a draft RFP by October, with a final award by September 2020. The contract involves management of transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, and high-level radioactive waste, as well as protecting the Snake River Aquifer.
The new schedule indicates the potential $6 billion Hanford Mission Essential Services Contract, a successor to the current $4 billion contract held by Leidos-led Mission Support Alliance, could be out by the end of the year.
The Nevada Environmental Program Services Contract, potentially worth $400 million, could also be issued by the end of the year. Navarro holds the $80 million current contract, which runs through January 2020.
The third award expected this year is the potential $1 billion paramilitary security contract for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Centerra Group has the current $990 million contract slated to expire in October.
Bid proposals are due in March for both the potential $15 billion Tank Closure Contract and the $12 billion Central Plateau Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The agency hopes to make an award by August 2020 on the successor agreement to the $6.8 billion tank contract held by AECOM-led Washington River Protection Solutions. A February 2020 award is anticipated for the Central Plateau business, currently held through September by Jacobs subsidiary CH2M under an extension to its $6 billion contract.
The DOE Environmental Management procurement timeline is updated several times per year.
