Stoller Newport News Nuclear (SN3) President Nick Lombardo has been tapped to lead the management team for the joint venture recently awarded the $1.39 billion legacy cleanup contract at the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Lombardo will serve as program manager for Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, which will be responsible for protecting an important regional aquifer and remediation of contaminated legacy waste sites in and around the laboratory property, as well as decontamination, decommissioning, and demolition of structures.
The Stoller Newport News Nuclear-BWX Technologies (N3B) team said last week it had received the green light from DOE to begin its 90-day transition period at Los Alamos.
In an email statement, Stoller spokesperson Beci Brenton provided the names of the management team for the SN3-BWXT joint venture.
In addition to Lombardo, other members of the management team are: Regulatory and Stakeholder Interface Manager Frazer Lockhart; Environmental Remediation Program Manager Joe Legare; Contact-Handled TRU Waste Program Manager Danny Nichols; Quality Assurance and Transformation Manager Gary Pool; Environment, Safety and Health Manager Elizabeth Lowes; Engineering and Nuclear Safety Manager Glenn Morgan; Business Manager Glenn Kizer; and Planning and Integration Manager Adam Barras.
Nichols and Pool are managers from BWXT while the rest are either from the SN3 side of the joint venture or new hires.
Roughly 400 people will be required for the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract, consisting of Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos employees and subcontractor personnel, Brenton said. It is unknown exactly how many of those are coming over from the current contractor, Los Alamos National Security (LANS).
The hiring process is spelled out in the contract and N3B is very early in the transition process, the spokesperson said.
The Stoller-BWXT partnership won the contract in December over two other bidding teams. Last week, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos said two key subcontractors on the project would be Tech2 Solutions and Longenecker & Associates.
The contract changeover will lead into a base contract period of five years and subsequent options of three years and two years, according to Stoller parent Huntington Ingalls.
“It is very early in our transition, and we are focused on clearly understanding our client’s expectations and the transition planning work that has been done by the DOE and incumbent Bridge contractor,” Brenton said.
Incumbent LANS is a joint venture of the University of California, Bechtel, BWXT, and AECOM. The team is also the lab’s management and operations prime under a contract set to expire at the end of September. The Energy Department expects to award a new LANL management contract this spring: the University of California is known to be in the running, BWXT has indicated its interest, Bechtel has been publicly noncommittal, and AECOM has reportedly not participated in a bid.
LANS’ two-year, $230 million bridge cleanup contract awarded in 2015 was originally set to expire on Sept. 30, 2017. But LANS received a six-month, $65 million extension to finish up treatment of nitrate salt drums, which held a mix similar to the drum that blew open at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project in New Mexico in February 2014.
