The Energy Department on Thursday put out to bid 10 years of deactivation and cleanup work for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a former uranium enrichment facility in Kentucky that shut down in 2013.
Along with that contract, DOE soft-started a smaller procurement for technical services at the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office, releasing on Thursday a sources-sought notice/request for information.
The forthcoming deactivation and cleanup contract — a follow-on to Fluor Federal Services’ three-year, $465-million cleanup contract that expires on July 21, 2017 — is by far the larger of the two deals, with an estimated value of $600 million to $1 billion. That includes a five-year base, one three-year option, and one two-year option, according to the final request for proposals posted online Thursday.
The new deactivation and cleanup pact will involve a mixture of cost-plus and fixed-price features, DOE said in its press release announcing the start of competition for the contract.
According to DOE’s press release, the eventual winner of the deactivation contract will be responsible for:
- Stabilization and deactivation, including deposit and hold-up removal, including technetium-99 thermal treatment and freon disposition.
- Safeguards and security, including design and construction of new modular firing range for firearms training, limited areas, and protective force modular training complex.
- Landfill operations.
- Designing the on-site waste disposal facility.
- Surveillance and maintenance.
- Utilities operations.
- Environmental services, including Solid Waste Management Units 211 A&B and C-400 groundwater remediation.
Proposals are due by 5 p.m. Sept. 21.
Meanwhile, the contract for technical services for the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office, which oversees cleanup from both Paducah and a substantially identical gaseous diffusion plant in Pike County, Ohio, will replace a $51.6 million deal held by Restoration Services. That deal’s three-year base period expires Sept. 30. Including a pair of one-year options, the contract could stretch out through Sept. 30, 2018.
According to DOE’s press release, the tech support contract covers “information technology infrastructure support, safeguards and security oversight, and general administrative support at the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office,” which is headquartered in Lexington, Ky.
