A group called Oak Ridge Environmental Partners, has protested the Department of Energy’s multibillion-dollar remediation contract for the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee awarded last month to an Amentum-Jacobs partnership.
That’s according to a contract challenge dated Monday and posted to the Government Accountability Office’s website.
Debriefs were held last week on two major contracts issued in late October by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, including the potential 15-year, $8.3-billion Cleanup Contract awarded to United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR): a team made up of Amentum, Jacobs and Honeywell. The group also has RSI EnTech, Strata-G, Longenecker & Associates and Environmental Alternatives as teaming subcontractors.
The GAO website said the federal watchdog plans to rule on the bid protest by Feb. 23, 2022, which is a 100-day window.
An industry source told Weapons Complex Morning Briefing that the protester is led by Veolia. An Internet search on Oak Ridge Environmental Partners did show a corporate entity with an Oak Ridge, Tenn., mailing address and two contact names, which appear to be associated with Veolia Nuclear Solutions Federal Services or Wastren Advantage, which was purchased by Veolia in early 2018.
The current cleanup business at the site is held by URS/CH2M Hill Oak Ridge, an Amentum-Jacobs partnership, under a deal that started in August 2011 and is scheduled to run through July 2022. The business is currently valued at $4.2-billion.
