Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based RSI Services is the winner of a potential five-year, $22-million small business contract to remediate Naval Reactors sites overseen by the semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration in West Milton, N.Y.
The set-aside cleanup contract for the Kesselring Site was announced Tuesday by the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Under the indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contract, RSI will tear down legacy facilities, perform environmental remediation, provide waste management and transportation and do other related work, according to the DOE press release.
“We look forward to partnering with DOE to safely and efficiently deliver cleanup services at the Kesselring Site,” RSI Services President Bradley Spears said in a Friday emailed statement.
A link to the contract will ultimately be posted on this procurement website, and Environmental Management spokesperson in Cincinnati said Thursday. It was not posted as of Friday morning.
The Kesselring Site started operations in 1955 as the West Milton Site. It was renamed in 1968 in honor of Kenneth Kesselring, a former Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory general manager, according to a Naval Nuclear Laboratory website.
In August of 2019 the DOE issued a request for information for remediation of the Kettering Site and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. According to that document, cleanup at Knolls would include removal of the 24,000 square-foot Q complex and its six buildings, three of which hosted radiological operations, and possibly removal of the soil beneath the complex, among other things.
At Kesselring, DOE sought cleanup of the D1G ditch, used for both stormwater runoff and process water from the site, and characterization of various buildings and space on the site, according to the 2019 sources sought notice.
RSI is a certified small business and Alaska Native Corporation, DOE said in its press release. Affiliate RSI EnTech was acquired by Arctic Slope Regional Corp. in 2016, according to the RSI website.
A year ago, the DOE’s Office of Legacy Management awarded RSI a five-year, $366-million support contract. The following month two protests were filed with the Government Accountability Office, which ultimately upheld the RSI award.
