Documents published this week show more than 150 individuals and 60 organizations registered to take part in online briefings on the planned megabuck remediation deal at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee.
The list of firms posted Monday that turned out to kick the tires and learn more about the potentially 10-year, $8.3 billion contract reads like a who’s who of the DOE business.
These include Atkins, Amentum, Bechtel, BWX Technologies, CDM Smith, EnergySolutions, Fluor, Huntington Ingalls, Honeywell, Jacobs, Leidos, Longenecker & Associates, Los Alamos Technical Associates, Navarro Research and Engineering, North Wind Group, Orano, Parsons, Perma-Fix Environmental Services, RSI EnTech, Spectra Tech, Veolia, Waste Control Specialists, and Westinghouse.
With contracts this large “everybody feels like they have to get a piece,” an industry official said by phone Thursday.
The virtual meetings were held last week on the draft request for proposals (RFP) issued last month. The DOE Office of Environmental Management published its slides on the draft RFP presentation online yesterday. There is also a site tour video online; the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic prevented in-person tours.
Comments on the draft RFP, which focuses on cleanup and waste management at the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), were due Thursday.
At ORNL, for example, the new contractor should demolish certain reactor facilities in fiscal 2023, continue to provide support for a subcontractor’s construction of a mercury treatment and removal system at Y-12 that should be done in fiscal 2024 and start decommissioning of some ORNL isotope facilities in fiscal 2016.
The current contractor, the Amentum-Jacobs joint venture URS/CH2M Hill Oak Ridge (UCOR), has essentially finished tearing down and remediating old facilities at the East Tennessee Technology Park: the former gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment complex at Oak Ridge.
UCOR has a $3.3 billion contract that began in August 2011. The contract was set to expire July 31, but the DOE agreed to an extension that could keep UCOR around for as many as two more years, through July 2022.
Negotiations are ongoing between DOE and UCOR to finalize the scope, terms, and cost associated with the extension, an agency spokesperson said Friday.
The winner of the new contract will have a 90-day transition period.
