While working on a new follow-on contract for haulage of defense-related transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., the Department of Energy has moved to keep incumbent CAST Specialty Transportation in place a little longer.
The Carlsbad Transportation Services Contract held by the small business since June 2017 is now scheduled to expire July 30, according to the Office of Environmental Management’s major contracts chart updated Tuesday.
As recently as last month, the CAST contract, which has a maximum value of $112 million, was slated to expire at the end of May.
A final request for proposals for a new $100-million contract was released by DOE in June 2021. Representatives from CAST were among 16 organizations that showed up for a pre-solicitation conference.
Coincidentally or not, it has also been just over a year since the DOE Environmental Management procurement office issued a request for proposals for the big prize at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the management and operations contract. There the incumbent Nuclear Waste Partnership, an Amentum-BWXT partnership, is currently in place until Sept. 30. The current value of the prime contract that started in October 2012 is $2.7 billion.
