The legacy cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory said this week it has signed two subcontracts, worth a combined $36.5 million, with small businesses for building maintenance and health services.
Newport News Nuclear BWTX Los Alamos (N3B) said in a Wednesday press release it has signed a roughly $30-million contract with SAMES, a minority-owned business based in McAllen, Texas, for building construction services and building maintenance. SAMES has offices in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
N3B also said in the release it has issued a $6.5-million contract with HealthWorks Medical of Paducah, Ky., to run an employee health clinic that will be located in the Los Alamos Medical Center. HealthWorks is a small disadvantaged business, N3B said.
The HealthWorks subcontract was competitively bid and the SAMES contract was issued through a small business set-aside.
In fiscal 2023, N3B awarded about $290 million in contracts, 80% of which went to small businesses, N3B said in the release. N3B has a $1.8-billion cleanup contract at Los Alamos that started in April 2018 and is currently set to run through April 2026. N3B employs roughly 650 people.
