More than a year after announcing its plans to keep incumbent cleanup contractor Fluor-BWXT on the job at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, the Department of Energy has executed a potential $690-million extension that could run until late March 2023.
The final agreement, announced this week by the two partners, took effect March 29 and includes a one-year extension with two additional six-month options.
Competition for a follow-on Portsmouth cleanup contract has not really started in earnest. DOE only issued a sources sought notice for the next Portsmouth remediation pact in September. At deadline, the agency had neither issued a draft request for proposals nor said when one might appear.
The Fluor-BWXT team, supported by Jacobs subsidiary CH2M, provides decontamination and decommissioning at the sprawling 3,700-acre property that is home to DOE’s former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
“We have been working at Portsmouth for 10 years and this extension provides a continuity of service crucial for the site and the DOE as the project moves into the next phase of demolition and waste placement,” Tom D’Agostino, president of Fluor’s Mission Solutions business, said in a press release.
“We believe that BWXT’s footprint at seven sites supporting the DOE’s EnvironmentalManagement mission demonstrates the breadth and depth of our company’s waste management, environmental remediation and site cleanup capabilities,” Ken Camplin, president of BWXT’s Nuclear Services Group, said in a press release.
Last month, speakers from DOE and Fluor-BWXT told the virtual Waste Management Symposia conference that structural demolition of the X-326 Process Building at the Portsmouth Site could start later this spring.
The Fluor-BWXT team has been on the job at the Piketon, Ohio site since March 29, 2011. With the $690-million extension, the total value of the contract rises to $4.4-billion, according to the latest summary of DOE contracts.
