A joint venture led by a Veolia affiliate has been tapped by Amentum-led Central Plateau Cleanup Co. to run two landfills at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state under a deal potentially worth $124 million over six years, Veolia said Wednesday.
The Hanford cleanup prime has picked the joint venture between Veolia Nuclear Solutions – Federal Services and CTI and Associates to manage the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility and the Integrated Disposal Facility, according to a Veolia press release.
Veolia Nuclear Solutions – Federal Services has run the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility since 2013, and the Integrated Disposal Facility since 2020. Now the joint venture, CTI-VNSFS Environmental, LLC will handle landfill operations, including inspection and maintenance, according to the release.
The joint venture’s two-year, $36 million subcontract, which started Jan. 1, includes an option for two 2-year extensions worth an additional $88 million for work through calendar year 2029.
Located at the center of the Hanford Site the 107-acre Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility was built in the 1990s and has taken in about 19 million tons of low-level radioactive, hazardous and mixed wastes generated onsite. The Integrated Disposal Facility is a similar facility, albeit designed to take solidified low-activity waste from the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant and other low-level waste from Hanford, according to DOE.
“This subcontract award supports ongoing operations and reinforces the Central Plateau Cleanup Company’s commitment to support small business,” a spokesperson for the prime said in a Wednesday email.
The two companies in the joint venture, spawned through a mentor-protégé agreement approved by the U.S. Small Business Association in July 2020, are bringing complementary strengths in self-performing landfill engineering, construction and operations, according to the press release. CTI is recognized as a minority business enterprise, according to its website.
A Veolia spokesperson said by phone Thursday the mentor-protégé relationship with CTA was key to Veolia’s decision to seek the landfill business through a joint venture. The program encourages large companies to team up with small, disadvantaged or minority-owned businesses.
