March 17, 2014

EM TO MAKE DECISION ON NEXT IDAHO CLEANUP CONTRACT WITHIN A MONTH

By ExchangeMonitor

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management appears to be close to making a final decision on whether or not to recompete the next cleanup contract for DOE’s Idaho site. EM is set to reach a final decision point within the next month on whether to recompete or move forward with a planned three-year extension for current contractor CH2M-WG Idaho, EM Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition and Project Management Jack Surash said yesterday at this year’s Waste Management conference in Phoenix. Surash declined to comment on how the Idaho cleanup work would be competed, were a decision made to do so, including if work would be broken out among multiple contracts.

DOE is looking to extend CWI’s contract at Idaho, currently set to expire at the end of Fiscal Year 2012, as part of a plan to accelerate the completion of the bulk of the remaining legacy cleanup work there to 2015, years ahead of current schedules. CWI consists of CH2M Hill and URS. The contractor has largely been praised for its work to date at Idaho, which has involved facility D&D and buried waste retrieval, among other efforts. One significant area where CWI has experienced performance issues, though, is in completing the site’s Sodium-Bearing Waste Treatment Facility (also known as the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit), which is intended to process the remaining liquid waste at Idaho’s tank farm by the end of 2012 to meet a commitment to the state of Idaho. Completion and startup of the facility has been delayed several times, with DOE now projecting that the SBWT Facility will begin operation by May.

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