The National Nuclear Security Administration has invited would-be bidders for the mammoth Los Alamos National Laboratory management and operations contract to tour the weapons lab on Aug. 29.
Those interested in attending the tour must complete the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) badge request form and fax it to Pam Valdez at (505) 664-0273 by 4 p.m. Mountain Time on Aug. 23, the semiautonomous Energy Department agency said in a procurement note posted online Thursday.
In addition to the tour, DOE will host one-on-one meetings with prospective offerors, each of whom may bring a maximum of four company representatives. Anyone interested in scheduling a meeting must email [email protected] by 5 p.m. Mountain Time Aug. 22, and also submit a badge request form to Pam Valdez.
Los Alamos National Security (LANS), a partnership led by the University of California and Bechtel National, is the LANL management and operations contractor until Sept. 30, 2018. The NNSA has released a draft request for proposals for a planned 10-year follow-on contract, with a final solicitation expected in September.
The Energy Department decided to pull LANS’ contract in 2015 after the lab was blamed for a shoddily packaged container of transuranic waste that leaked radiation into the deep-underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant disposal facility near Carlsbad, N.M. LANS’ contract is worth roughly $2 billion a year and had options that could have extended through 2026.
