The Government Accountability Office plans to rule by Feb. 27 on a bid protest of a potentially $2.3-billion contract for the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office.
The deadline shown in the online notice reflects the Government Accountability Office (GAO) 100-day time period for deciding contract protests.
Elsewhere, there had been as of deadline for Weapons Complex Monitor no bid protest filed over a new cleanup award for the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state.
On Monday, a DOE spokesperson said the agency had yet to issue a transition notice to the BWX Technologies-led team that won the Oct. 30 award, potentially worth $3 billion. West Valley Cleanup Alliance, a team of partners BWXT, Jacobs Technology, which is now part of Amentum Holdings, and Geosyntec Consultant. The has a 120-day transition period and with options could run 10 years.
DOE awarded the Office Operations and Site Mission Support Services contract, which includes depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion in November to Mission Conversion Services Alliance. Partners in the winning team are Atkins Nuclear Secured Westinghouse Government Services, and Jacobs Technology.
A bid protest then filed with GAO Nov. 19 by a venture called Mission Operations Alliance. Multiple sources have told Exchange Monitor they believe the protesting bidder is headed by Bechtel National. As of Tuesday morning, Bechtel was not saying one way or the other.
The current DUF6 conversion business, worth about $900-million, is held by an AtkinsRéalis’-led joint venture, Mid-America Conversion Services.
The current West Valley cleanup contract, currently worth about $1 billion, is led by a Jacobs company, CH2M, with BWXT as a junior partner.
