Portage late last week filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office over the Department of Energy’s recent award of the new Portsmouth environmental technical services contract to Restoration Services. Inc. The new contract is set to run for up to five years and is worth approximately $43 million. Portage declined to comment yesterday on its reasons for protesting the award to RSI, which had been the incumbent. Bill Taylor, a spokesman for the DOE Office of Environmental Management’s Consolidated Business Center, also largely declined to comment on the protest yesterday except to say that a “stay in performance” had been issued July 29 “directing the new contractor to stop work on the new contract until the protest is decided.” The GAO is currently set to make a decision on the protest by early November.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓