The Department of Energy prime for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina is shopping around for subcontractors interested in building a new emergency operations center.
The request for information and expressions of interest by Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions was published online Wednesday.
Responses are due by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Feb. 5 and are meant to help the Savannah River prime select a qualified supplier to build a new Emergency Operations Centers and 911 communications center at the federal complex 15 miles south of Aiken, S.C.
The current emergency operations and 911 facilities are within a 70-year-old building, DOE officials have said.
According to the notice, the prime wants an entity to build a replacement building for both the Site Operations Center and the Emergency Operations Center, which run independently of each other despite being under the same roof.
The new building would be designed to withstand potential tornadoes and earthquakes, according to the notice.
In its fiscal 2024 budget justification, DOE requested nearly $35 million to go toward the new Savannah River emergency ops center. The project was budgeted for about $26 million in fiscal 2023 and $9 million in 2022. The budget document pegs the estimated total cost at somewhere between $83 million and $94 million.
Last year a new emergency management center was completed at the Paducah Site in Kentucky.
