Washington River Protection Solutions, the radioactive waste tank management contractor for the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, is seeking a subcontractor to fabricate three drop-deck trailers for moving vitrified waste.
The solicitation for the firm-fixed-price subcontract was posted July 22 in the federal procurement website www.fbo.gov. Bids are due by 9 a.m. PT on Aug. 19.
The immobilized waste will be transported in three protective engineered containers on a special drop-deck trailer, a WRPS spokesman said via email Tuesday. The trailer will be hauled by an 18-wheel truck.
The transporter system will move containers of vitrified material from the Low-Activity Waste Facility at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) to the Integrated Disposal Facility. The WTP is scheduled to start turning low-activity waste into a stable glass-like substance by 2023.
The transport trailer must comply with all Washington state Department of Transportation requirements, according to the solicitation material. The first trailer should be delivered to a Hanford Site warehouse by Dec. 1 of this year. The other two trailers are due by June 1, 2020.
In addition, WRPS is seeking 43 specialty pallets to hold solidified waste containers on the trailer.
The solicitation did not include any cost estimates.
For further information, contact Energy Department procurement specialist Christopher Franz, at [email protected].
Washington River Protection Solutions, comprised of AECOM and Atkins, has overseen the 177 underground liquid waste tanks for Hanford’s Office of River Protection since October 2008 under agreements valued at $6.8 billion. After its initial 10-year contract expired, the WRPS received a one-year extension through this September.
