More than two-dozen firms sent multiple representatives to attend virtual meetings last week on the Department of Energy’s potentially $5.87-billion Decontamination and Decommissioning Contract at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, according to a list published this week.
Parties sending people to virtual sessions on a follow-on contract to clean up the former gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment complex near Piketon, Ohio, include a number of big, small and medium-size players around the weapons complex.
They are: Acuity International, Akima, Amentum, Aptim, ARS Aleut Remediation, Atkins, Bechtel, BWX Technologies, Cavendish Nuclear, CDM Smith, CTI and Associates, Environmental Chemical Corporation, Fluor Holtec, Honeywell, HukariAscendent, Inspection Experts, INTERA, Jacobs, Kiewit, Magics Technology, McKinsey & Company, North Wind Portage, Orano, Parsons, Perma-Fix Environmental, Tetra-Tech, Veolia and Westinghouse.
Meanwhile, DOE said last week after the virtual sessions Jan. 25 through 27 that it was tinkering with the way it will judge bids for the yet-to-come final solicitation for the follow-on contract to clean up the former enrichment plant.
Specifically, DOE’s Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center said it might make bidders’ management approach as important as past performance in its evaluation, according to a Jan. 28 notice on the agency’s procurement website.
Key personnel would still be the most important criteria, according to DOE. Past performance is currently slotted as the second-most important factor with management approach following in third.
The new remediation provider at the former gaseous diffusion plant would replace Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, which has been on site since March 2011 under a contract valued at $4.4 billion and scheduled to run through March 28, 2023.
DOE also said it has changed contracting officer on the Portsmouth decommissioning deal to LeAnn Brock from Travis Marshall. Questions can be directed to [email protected].
The agency is meanwhile weighing a similar change of bid evaluations for the $1.89-billion Portsmouth Paducah Project Office (PPPO) Operations and Site Mission Support Contract.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management released its draft request for proposals (RFP) for both contracts on Jan. 4. Interested parties could weigh in on the Portsmouth decommissioning evaluation and other contemplated tweaks by filing written comments by Thursday Feb. 3.
DOE has said it will not release final RFPs for either contract before March.
