The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management on Thursday awarded five-year basic ordering agreements for nationwide low-level and mixed-low level waste treatment to five firms, including some incumbents.
The winning companies are Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions, Atlanta-based Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Massachusetts-headquartered Unitech Services Group, Waste Control Specialists in Texas and Ohio-based Veolia Nuclear Solutions Federal Services, the agency said in a press release.
Four of the five, with the exception of Veolia, are already providing treatment services to the DOE nuclear cleanup office. Veolia appears to be the lone new provider.
The work entails receiving, handling, and treating waste from DOE’s nuclear sites. The ordering period runs from this month through Dec. 4, 2025, and the actual work for the orders should be completed within six years, according to procurement documents. The ordering agreements will utilize task orders with pricing that can be firm-fixed, fixed-unit or time and materials-based, depending on the work involved. There are no minimum dollar value or waste volume figures, according to the request for proposals released in late August.
The material involved includes a variety of radioactive waste in solid, sludge, liquid or gaseous forms left over from federal nuclear weapons production. The waste might contain chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs).
