The Department of Energy awarded North Wind Portage a nine-month, $1.9-million extension to continue various environmental chores at the DOE-controlled portion of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California, according to a recent procurement notice.
Following the mid-September extension, the company’s current task order is now valued at $66.4-million. Without the extension, North Wind’s work at Santa Susana’s Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site would have expired Sept. 30.
The DOE’s notice of this latest amendment to the environmental monitoring and decontamination and demolition at the Simi Valley site was published online Oct. 5 in the federal System for Award Management. The extension will keep North Wind on the job through June 2024.
North Wind received a two-year extension in September 2021. Future work of the sort now being done by North Wind Portage will be blended into the Small Business Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning and Removal procurement, which has yet to be awarded.
North Wind Portage has successfully torn down the final 18 of the DOE-owned buildings left at ETEC, DOE said in materials accompanying the online notice.
North Wind’s ongoing activities at ETEC include safety assessments, air monitoring, groundwater monitoring, and periodic pumping of groundwater. Extending the incumbent “is in the best interest of the government to ensure there is no gap in services and allow for a smooth transition to the follow-on contractor,” DOE said.
The 2,850-acre Boeing-owned site has been used over time for rocket engine and nuclear research by Boeing, NASA and DOE. In June, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control issued its Final Program Environmental Impact Report on the property.
DOE has said in its budget documents it expects ETEC to be fully remediated by 2045.
