The Department of Energy has picked up a six-month option keeping North Wind Portage on the job as the technical assistance contractor at the Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico until June 2021.
The basic contract and associated task orders were extended six months from Dec. 4, last Friday, to June 3, 2021, a spokesperson for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management said in a Monday email.
The value of the six-month increase is estimated to be worth up to $6 million, the spokesperson said. That would push the total value of the small-business set-aside contract, which began in December 2015, to about $51 million.
Bids are due Dec. 14 on a new Carlsbad Technical Assistance Contract that could be worth up to $100 million. The work focuses on providing audits and technical assistance to the Carlsbad office and the DOE program for certifying and shipping defense-related transuranic waste from agency-approved sites to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: DOE’s only deep-underground, permanent repository for such waste.
