The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday it has contracted five small businesses to provide $24.9 million worth of demolition and other cleanup services for the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
The selected companies are: Aerostar SES, of Oak Ridge; ARS Aleut Remediation, of Port Allen, La.; CTI and Associates, of Knoxville, Tenn.; GEM Technologies, also of Knoxville; and TerranearPMC, of Exton, Pa.
The Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) issued an indefinite delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to each company, through which DOE could issue firm-fixed-price taskings for select projects. The work is expected to cover teardown of lower-hazard structures, waste disposal, and technical support, according to an OREM press release.
“With the contract award today, we are still in the early stages of that process,” OREM spokesman Ben Williams said by email. “We are currently working to identify the projects that best advance our cleanup and align with the scope and requirements of this contract.”
OREM manages environmental remediation throughout the 32,400-acre Oak Ridge Reservation, which began operations during the Manhattan Project and continues to house active operations including the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The cleanup prime for the site is URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR), under a $2.7 billion contract set to expire in July 2020.
On its procurement website, DOE’s Office of Environmental Management cited a list of potential assignments for contractors, including: preparation of Federal Facilities Agreement documentation, such as data quality objectives, sampling analysis plans, waste handling plans, and technical memos; deactivation, demolition, and remediation of low-risk, low-complexity facilities; disposal of primary and secondary waste; and providing technical briefings and reports.
