The Jacobs-led Idaho Environmental Coalition should take over cleanup at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory around Jan. 1, 2022, an agency spokesperson said via email Friday.
The Jacob-led joint venture, awarded the potential 10-year, $6.4-billion contract in May, received its notice to proceed on July 20. The 90-day changeover from incumbent Fluor Idaho is scheduled to start Oct. 1, the spokesperson said.
The DOE issued the notice to proceed a week after rival bidder, Bechtel-led Idaho Remediation, withdrew its contract challenge before the Government Accountability Office.
Idaho Environmental Coalition is a joint venture made up of Jacobs, North Wind Portage and teaming subcontractors Navarro Research and Engineering, Oak Ridge Technologies and Spectra Tech. Spectra Tech is a DOE incumbent on a roughly five-year, $53-million contract for management of spent fuel from the Fort St. Vrain nuclear reactor in Colorado, a deal set to expire at the end of September. Likewise, Fluor Idaho’s roughly five-year, $2.2-billion cleanup contract at Idaho is currently set to expire Sept. 30.
Both agreements are being replaced by the new contract for the Idaho Environmental Coalition. Along with chores such as decommissioning old facilities, preparing transuranic waste for shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, the contract also includes operations of the long-delayed Integrated Waste Treatment Unit at Idaho.
