The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management on Friday issued its final request for proposals for the Oak Ridge Reservation Cleanup Contract in Tennessee.
The potential $8.3 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has an ordering period of 10 years and the completion of the task orders are expected within 15 year, DOE said in a Friday press release.
The DOE nuclear cleanup office Aug. 18 issued the draft RFP for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a 10-year ordering period.
The bid deadline is Feb. 16, 2021 and questions on the request for proposals (RFP) are due 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, Dec. 28, according to the RFP cover letter.
With major cleanup effectively concluded on the East Tennessee Technology Park the new contract will focus on environmental work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 Nuclear Security Complex.
The work will include remediation of excess facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Y-12; design, construction, and operation of the new onsite disposal facility, Environmental Management Disposal Facility, DOE said.
The new provider would replace UCOR, the Amentum-Jacobs partnership that began working on the current $3.3 billion contract in August 2011. In July, DOE said it was keeping the incumbent around at least through July 2021. If two more six-month extensions are picked up, the UCOR could hang around until July 2022.
The department and the contractor are still in the final stages of wrapping up the one-year extension, an Office of Environmental Management spokesperson said last week.
Amentum and Jacobs have expressed interest in keeping the business. The high-dollar amount is expected to lure most major DOE nuclear remediation contractors, sources have said.
There was a huge turnout for a virtual industry briefing in September. Along with the two incumbents, participants included Atkins, Bechtel, BWX Technologies, CDM Smith, EnergySolutions, Fluor, Huntington Ingalls, Honeywell, Leidos, Longenecker & Associates, Los Alamos Technical Associates, Navarro Research and Engineering, North Wind Group, Orano, Parsons, Perma-Fix Environmental Services, RSI EnTech, Spectra Tech, Veolia, Waste Control Specialists and Westinghouse.
