PANTEX, Y-12 CONTRACTS EXTENDED THROUGH APRIL 29

The National Nuclear Security Administration has extended the contracts of B&W-led teams that currently run the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex Plant through April 29, stretching the arrangements through the initial date that the Government Accountability Office could rule on protests of the agency’s consolidated contract award. The NNSA selected Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security to run Y-12 and Pantex Jan. 8, and NNSA spokesman Steven Wyatt said that the current contracts were extended in late January after unsuccessful bidders Nuclear Production Partners and Integrated Nuclear Production Solutions protested the agency’s decision. B&W led Nuclear Production Partners protested first, on Jan. 17, and the GAO has 100 days to rule on the protest, and could lump a later protest by Integrated Nuclear Production Solutions in with its decision.