The Department of Energy Thursday issued its final solicitation for a potential $614-million small business set-aside contract for the Moab Remedial Action Contract which involves cleanup of a uranium tailings pile in Utah.
The new business could run 15 years, with a 10-year ordering period plus an additional five-year task order, and would replace the existing five-year $187-million contract held by North Wind Portage, according to a DOE press release.
The current contract is scheduled to run through September.
The new deal will be an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract and the selection will be made based upon key people, past performance, management approach, and cost, according to DOE.
The cover letter with the final request for proposals (RFP) stipulates the size limit for bidders is 750 employees. Bid proposals are due by March 29 and questions should be submitted by Feb. 19 to [email protected].
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic no site tour is expected although the DOE Office of Environmental Management said on the Moab procurement website to expect a virtual one to be announced by Feb. 18.
While registration is not required for the virtual tour and briefing, interested parties have the option to provide their name, organization and contact information for posting online to DOE’s contracting officer, Michael Forsgren, at [email protected].
The nuclear cleanup office issued the draft RFP in October, nearly a year after it started its market research on the new contract.
The work involves cleanup of the 435-acre former Atlas Minerals Corp.’s uranium-ore processing facility located about three miles northwest of Moab in Grand County, Utah.
The work includes removing tailings from the old Atlas site and shipping the material by rail to the engineered Crescent Junction waste disposal facility 30 miles away. The DOE said last October that about 11 million of the total 16 million tons of mill tailings have been relocated from the Moab site to Crescent Junction.
The contract will include excavation and disposal of all remaining residual radioactive material, providing final covers, and completion of disposal cell construction to include final covers and restoration of the Moab and Crescent Junction sites, according to DOE.
The Moab facility was constructed by Uranium Reduction Co. in 1956 and subsequently sold to Atlas in 1962, according to DOE documents. Atlas processed uranium ore first for military programs, and later for commercial use. Atlas operated under a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license until the 1980s when it stopped operations. It declared bankruptcy in 1998.
