United Cleanup Oak Ridge this week started work under the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Reservation Cleanup Contract, potentially worth up to $8.3 billion over 10 years.
The Amentum-led United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UROR) includes partners Jacobs Engineering and Honeywell International with teaming subcontractors RSI EnTech, Strata-G, Longnecker & Associates and Environmental Alternatives. The company announced its first day on the job Monday in a press release.
Amentum and Jacobs also led the previous Oak Ridge cleanup contractor for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management. That team, also called UCOR, this week wrapped up a contract awarded in 2011 and worth more than $4 billion over that span. The old UCOR was onsite for watershed moments including the teardown of the K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility.
The new contractor will continue cleanup of Cold War uranium-enrichment at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, construction and operation of the new, on-site Environmental Management Disposal Facility, plus cleanup of excess facilities at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory owned by DOE’s Office of Science and the Y-12 National Security Complex owned by DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration. The latter handles DOE’s active nuclear-weapons programs.
The new award, which DOE announced in October, is a long-term, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. The agency’s Office of Environmental Management has shifted many of the shuttered nuclear-weapon sites for which it is responsible to such contracts, which the agency says provide more flexibility than the 10-year management and operations contracts commonly used in the last two decades.
The new UCOR’s award includes a 10-year ordering period, though DOE could give the team up to 15 years to complete all the task orders placed under the contract. This structure is common under the end-state contracting model the Office of Environmental Management rolled out in 2018.
