With last week’s award of the Department of Energy’s $5.87-billion environmental remediation contract for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio to an Amentum-led team, two industry sources expect a companion contract is imminent for operations of that property as well as the Paducah Site in Kentucky.
The sources, executives who work for different government contractors, also said DOE will brief losing and winning bidders by the middle of next week on the Office of Environmental Management’s selection of Southern Ohio Cleanup Co. for the decade-long Decontamination and Decommissioning Contract for the former gaseous diffusion plant site.
Along with Amentum, other partners in the winning team are Fluor, which leads the incumbent, and Cavendish Nuclear. Another bidding team was believed to be made up of BWX Technologies, Jacobs and APTIM, according to sources.
In last week’s press release, DOE said certain work, including responsibility for utilities and emergency management handled by incumbent cleanup contractor Fluor-BWXT-Portsmouth, will be transferred over to the Operations and Site Mission Support Contract for Portsmouth and Paducah.
The latter contract will take the place of the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) held by Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Services. The new operations contract will still include running the DUF6 conversion plants at Portsmouth and Paducah.
Like the existing Portsmouth cleanup contract, the DUF6 contract is scheduled to expire Sept. 30. DOE has publicly said it would like the new contracts to kick in at about the same time.
Amentum, Fluor and Cavendish released statements Monday touting the DOE award.
