The Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup office should roll out its final solicitation for a national deactivation set-aside contract for small businesses by April 8, the agency said last week.
The Small Business Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning and Removal contract pre-solicitation notice dated March 1 anticipates the final request for proposals (RFP) within 45 days from the Feb. 22 issuance of the work synopsis. That would be by April 8.
“A Draft RFP will not be issued for the subject procurement,” according to last week’s document from the DOE Office of Environmental Management.
The scope of this procurement encompasses deactivation and removal of “excess, legacy facilities” at DOE sites nationally, along with accompanying waste management work, according to the document.
This national contract for environmental remediation companies with a size standard of 750 employees has generated significant interest, with 30 signing up by March 8 to be on an “interested vendors list,” according to DOE.
In November, the DOE Office of Environmental Management urged small businesses to team up to compete for what could be several Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contracts for remediation at sites overseen by either the Environmental Management office or other branches of DOE.
The procurement is a small business set-aside companion to a set of national awards issued to large companies in 2022, Aaron Deckard, a DOE procurement director, said last week during the Waste Management Symposia in Phoenix.
