Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
10/24/2014
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla.—A mission support-type contract for the Savannah River Site could be one of the options considered as the Department of Energy discusses future contracts at the site, DOE Savannah River Manager David Moody said here this week. “We are talking to our sister sites that have mission support contracts and looking at the benefits they have been providing and looking at the issues that are also present in those kinds of contracts,” Moody said at the Weapons Complex Monitor Decisionmakers’ Forum. “I’m not going to tell you whether we are considering a mission support contract or not. We are looking at all options and we will keep those open for a number of years to come as we move forward with the overall contract that we have at the site.”
Currently the site operates under an M&O contract run by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, which is operating under an extension until September 2016, as well as a liquid waste contract held by Savannah River Remediation that expires in March 2015 with two one-year option periods. With much of the D&D and transuranic waste cleanup under the SRS M&O contract winding down, the rest of the cleanup work could potentially be combined into one contract with a separate mission support contract. At DOE’s other large cleanup site at Hanford, a mission support contract covers site infrastructure while other Hanford contractors focus on various aspects of remediation, tank waste and D&D.
