The next big contract procurement update from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management should be out by Independence Day, according to a Thursday notice.
The next quarterly procurement update from the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center will be posted within about 30 to 45 calendar days, meaning it should be out by July 4, according to notice from the Cincinnati-based office’s acquisition lead, Aaron Deckard.
In the last such update the Environmental Management (EM) office said to expect two long-anticipated solicitations for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to drop this month. As of deadline today, DOE had not issued requests for proposals for either a new management and operations contract or a new transportation contract.
Nuclear Waste Partnership is the incumbent prime under a $2.7-billion contract that began in October 2012 and is scheduled to expire in September. CAST Specialty of WIPP is the transport contractor, under a $112-million contract that started in June 2017 and is slated to end in May 2022.
Meanwhile, potential bidders for a potential 10-year $21.5-billion draft solicitation for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina have until this Friday to submit comments on a draft request for proposals for DOE’s Savannah River Site Operations Acquisition. The Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions is the incumbent site operations contractor at the former plutonium production complex near the Georgia line.
