Fresh off a win in the contract for the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, BWX Technologies is eyeing additional contract awards in the near future, according to the company’s Oct. 4 investor day presentation.
BWXT partners with fellow DOE major AECOM in Nuclear Waste Partnership, which in September secured a $928 million, three-year extension as the prime management and operations contractor at WIPP, the nation’s sole underground repository for transuranic waste.
In the segment of an investor day slideshow on the company’s Nuclear Services Group, BWXT drew attention to a number of pending “Opportunities for Growth,” including: an eight-year, $5 billion contract for liquid waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; and a 10-year, $1.5 billion deal for Legacy Cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Bidding on the Savannah River Site contract closed more than a year ago. The current contract is held by Savannah River Remediation, a team led by AECOM with partners Bechtel National, CH2M, and BWX Technologies. Sources have indicated BWXT has bid on the new contract, but the company has not confirmed the reports.
In late September, DOE issued a $65 million, six-month contract extension for Los Alamos environmental management services to Los Alamos National Security. BWXT is also a member of the LANS team, along with Bechtel National, AECOM, and the University of California.
BWXT President and CEO Rex Geveden cited both the SRS and LANL contracts as business his company has a good chance at getting, according to text of the webcast. “So there’s a lot of stuff out there and we like our competitive position as it relates to the backlog opportunities,” Geveden said.
