The Energy Department on Thursday released a draft solicitation for a potentially 10-year cleanup contract at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky, which is now undergoing deactivation by Fluor Federal Services.
Fluor’s deal, worth $465 million over three years, runs out July 31, 2017, and DOE is looking for a contractor that could be in line for the longest cleanup pact at the plant since uranium enrichment ceased there in 2013. The contract would include cost-plus-award-fee and indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract elements and would require small business involvement.
Fluor received the contract in 2014 and took over Paducah remediation in 2015 from LATA Environmental Services of Kentucky, which had held a five-year contract. The potentially decade-long follow-on work to these two deals includes options, DOE said in a press release announcing the draft solicitation.
In March, DOE’s Jack Surash, procurement honcho for the agency’s Office of Environmental Management, said the final solicitation for Paducah remediation would hit the street between June and August. The deal would be worth between $600 million and $1 billion, Surash said at the time.
According to DOE’s press release, the winner of the upcoming competition would be responsible for: “project management support; stabilization and deactivation (including deposit / hold-up removal, 99Tc thermal treatment, freon disposition); On-Site Waste Disposal Facility design; surveillance and maintenance; utilities operations; and environmental tasks including solid waste management units 211 A&B, and groundwater remediation.”
DOE plans to hold and industry day and tour at the plant the week of May 16, according to the press release.
Further information on the procurement can be found here.
