The Department of Energy reiterated in Dec. 23 online comments that questions on the long-term contract, potentially worth up to $8.3-billion, at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, are due at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time today, Monday Dec. 28.
In answer to a question submitted by a potential bidder, the DOE stressed any questions should be in just before midnight tonight and not Christmas Day, as one line in the final request for proposals document had suggested.
Questions on the procurement should be emailed to [email protected].
Actual bids are due Feb. 16 on the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which has an ordering period of 10 years, and up to 15 years provided for completion of all task orders.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management published the final request for proposals on Friday Dec. 18. Incumbent UCOR, an Amentum-Jacobs joint venture has a $3.3-billion contract and DOE recently announced plans to keep the team onsite through July 2021 and, possibly, July 2022, although terms had not been finalized as of mid-December.
With cleanup essentially done on the East Tennessee Technology Park, the former uranium enrichment complex, the new contract will focus on environmental work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 Nuclear Security Complex.
