The Department of Energy has successfully gotten bidders on the uranium hexafluoride conversion work and other services at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Paducah Site in Kentucky will keep their offers open through Dec. 20, two industry sources said Monday.
Teams vying for the decade-long Portsmouth / Paducah Project Office (PPPO) Operations and Site Mission Support Contract agreed to keep their bids open through Nov. 17.
Word of the latest extension was shared with Exchange Monitor Monday by managers with two major companies serving the DOE weapons complex.
The incumbent running the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) facilities at the two former gaseous diffusion plants is Mid-America Conversion Services, a team of Atkins, Westinghouse and Fluor. Its $788-million contract, which started in November 2016, is now scheduled to run through January 2024.
Teams in the running for the add-on contract are said by industry sources to include an Atkins-Westinghouse venture; a Bechtel-Amentum team; a Huntington Ingalls-Jacobs joint venture; and a BWXT-Honeywell team.
The final solicitation for the new contract was issued in May 2022 by the DOE Office of Environmental Management and its award was rumored to be imminent for months now.