The Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup branch only expects to issue one solicitation over the next six months, for remediation of the West Valley Demonstration Project in western New York, the agency said in a Wednesday procurement update.
The agency expects the final RFP for the Phase 1B Deactivation and Demolition at West Valley will hit the street in December, but is the only such solicitation expected out by March 2024, according to the special notice posted Wednesday.
Earlier this month, the DOE Office of Environmental Management rolled out the draft request for proposals (RFP) for the next phase of West Valley cleanup, which could be worth $3 billion over 10 years.
A pre-solicitation conference and site tour was set for this week, Sept. 21-22, and the deadline for feedback on the draft RFP is Oct. 2. The incumbent contractor, a team of Jacobs and BWX Technologies, has a contract that runs through February 2025. The deal began in August 2011 and is now worth $990 million.
Meanwhile, the DOE cleanup industry is waiting for the agency’s Office of Environmental Management to award the potential $2.9-billion operations and support contract for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Paducah Site in Kentucky. The deal will combine depleted uranium oxide conversion work now done at the sites by an Atkins-led team with some support work spread across both former enrichment campuses. The incumbent contracts were set to expire Sept. 30.
In July, DIE awarded a follow-on remediation contract for Portsmouth alone, giving the deal to a team of Amentum, Fluor and Cavendish Nuclear. The contract is worth about $5.9 billion over 15 years, with options, though it has only a 10-year ordering period.
Looming large elsewhere at DOE is the litigation surrounding the award of the $45-billion Integrated Tank management contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state to a BWXT-led team. A losing Atkins-led bidder successfully blocked execution of the contract in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
