In notices last week, the Department of Energy said it plans to again extend incumbent cleanup contractors at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Paducah Site in Kentucky for up to a year.
DOE published a notice of intent July 2 to extend the Decontamination & Decommissioning services contract held by Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth for up to 12 months from Oct. 1, 2024 to Sept. 30, 2025.
DOE did not respond by Thursday evening to inquiries on how much the additional extensions might be worth.
The second notice grants an extension of up to 12 months, potentially through Sept. 30, 2025, for Mid-America Conversion Services. Mid-America, made up of Atkins, Westinghouse and Fluor, runs depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at the former gaseous diffusion plants in Paducah, Ky., and Piketon, Ohio.
These would be only the latest extension for the two incumbents.
DOE announced in July 2023 that Amentum-led Southern Ohio Cleanup Co. won a $5.9-billion contract to succeed Fluor-BWXT as remediation contractor at Portsmouth.
But DOE delayed turning the site over to Southern Ohio until it also awards the Portsmouth/Paducah contract for Operations and Site Mission Support. That deal would include Mid-America’s current DUF6 work as well as some tasks now carried out under the Portsmouth environmental contract, according to DOE.
The final request for proposals for the Operations and Site Mission Support contract, expected to be worth up to $2.9 billion, was posted in May 2022 by DOE.
Fluor-BWXT has been the environmental prime at Portsmouth since August 2020 and its contract is worth upwards of $5.3 billion, according to a DOE contract summary last updated in November 2023.
Mid-America has held the DUF6 conversion facilities contract since November 2016. The deal is valued at upwards of $858 million.