The Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup branch could increase the value of a North Wind Group environmental remediation contract at a naval reactor laboratory site in New York state to $47 million from $22 million, according to a procurement notice published last week.
The DOE’s Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center published a justification for increasing the maximum value of North Wind’s deal at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in New York. The document appeared Dec. 1 on the federal government’s procurement website, SAM.gov.
North Wind Site Services was issued its small business set-aside contract in June 2021, which is worth $22 million over five years. Increasing the value will allow North Wind to accelerate cleanup under the indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity contract at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Niskayuna, N.Y. and the Kesselring Site in West Milton, N.Y.
Both sites in New York state are part of the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.
“As the Government approaches the current estimated maximum value of the contract, acquisition planning was initiated to plan for any follow-on services that would be needed to complete all the remaining work at the Knolls and Kesselring sites,” according to the justification from DOE.
“Significant follow-on work scope remains at both sites including the below grade demolition of the Q-Complex as well as the characterization and demolition/decontamination of the Southeast Quadrant of the Kesselring complex.”
Upping the contract ceiling will not alter the original ordering period that runs through Oct. 29, 2025, DOE said. In a document accompanying the justification, DOE said North Wind, an Alaskan 8 (a) set-aside business “will graduate” from the program Nov. 1, 2025, according to the company’s SAM.gov information.
The altered contract should save the feds “substantial pre-award administrative / procurement costs and time; along with saving additional program preparation dollars if a new award would go to another” qualified small business, according to the notice.
