The Energy Department said Friday it intends to extend its contractual arrangements for decommissioning of the Portsmouth Site in Ohio with vendor Fluor-BWXT by up to two years.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management intends to negotiate a sole-source 12-month extension with two six-month options, according to a notice posted Friday on a federal procurement website.
That follow-on award is expected to be sealed by March 28, 2021, when the current contract is set to expire.
Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth is working under a 10-year, $3.4 billion contract, which started in March 2011, for decontamination and decommissioning at the former gaseous diffusion plant complex near the village of Piketon. The vendor team started worked on its final 30-month option for the existing contract in October 2018.
In addition to decontamination and planned demolition of large process buildings previously used in uranium enrichment, the contractor’s work includes building a $900 million facility designed to hold 2 million cubic yards of contaminated waste on-site at Portsmouth.
Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth won 86%, or $19.2 million, of the available $22.78 million in fees for its work during fiscal 2019.
Texas-based Fluor last week did an about-face and announced it would not sell its government contracting business, including work for the Energy Department.
Any parties that want to comment on the proposed sole-source extension should file comments with DOE by 4:30 p.m. ET March 9 by contacting Tyler Hicks of the DOE Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office at [email protected].
