DOE could soon award the first standalone management and operations contract for the Savannah River National Laboratory, the manager of the DOE Savannah River Site office said this week.
In addition to announcing the new stand-alone contractor for management of the laboratory, which is focused on nuclear-cleanup science and technology, DOE could announce the next Savannah River Site (SRS) paramilitary security contract winner in the near future, Michael Budney, DOE’s SRS Operations Office manager, said during a presentation to the SRS Citizens Advisory Board Monday.
Budney said these key contract awards could be imminent, but he was not more specific than that.
The laboratory is currently included in the $14.8-billion SRS operations management contract held by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions under a deal that runs through September 2021. SRS-Centerra currently provides paramilitary security, under a $1 billion contract that began in October 2009 and is slated to last through February.
Outside of those two contracts, proposals were due this week for the potential $21-billion Savannah River Site Integrated Mission Completion Contract: the follow-on to the the $7.4-billion liquid waste contract now held by Savannah River Remediation. The incumbent’s deal started in July 2009 and runs through September 2021.
The DOE procurement website listed no new developments as of Friday morning.
Pro2Serve Adds Senior Vice President
Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Professional Project Services, a Department of Energy contractor, said this week that Sherry Browder has joined the company as senior vice president and deputy chief operating officer.
Monday was the first day in the newly-created position at Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) for Browder, who has 30 years of experience in corporate and project management, including at the DOE’s Oak Ridge cleanup contractor, the company said in a press release.
For the past year, Browder has been president of government services for Management Solutions LLC. Prior to that, Browder was a re-industrialization and closure manager vice president for URS/CH2M Hill Oak Ridge, the Amentum-Jacobs partnership in charge of nuclear cleanup at the DOE Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. Browder spent four-and-a-half years there, two years at Leidos and more than 17 years at Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC.
Browder also spent more than six years with DOE at Oak Ridge.
“Sherry Browder brings a highly successful record of government and commercial business leadership, which will benefit Pro2Serve, our clients, and the communities in which we live and work,” said Pro2Servce Chairman and CEO Barry Goss in the press release.
Pro2Serve has a five-year, $49-million contract to provide technical support to the DOE Office of Environmental Management at Oak Ridge. A Pro2Serve affiliate also holds a three-year, $136-million contract to provide technical support services at DOE’s Portsmouth-Paducah Project Operations facilities in Ohio and Kentucky.
There was no word at press time on whether the Department of Energy is picking up an option to extend the current $44-million Carlsbad Technical Assistance Contract set to expire this week for a North Wind subsidiary.
The DOE can exercise an option to keep North Wind Portage on board through June 3, 2021 while the Office of Environmental Management continues to look for a new technical assistance contractor. That is according to a Nov. 10 presentation on the request for proposals for a new potential new $100-million small business set-aside contract.
About 60 people representing potential bidders participated in the online meeting about the solicitation. Bids on the new contract are due Dec. 14. The winner will provide audits and technical assistance to the Carlsbad office as it oversees transport of containers of defense-related transuranic waste from DOE-approved sites to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.
In a Thursday morning email, a DOE spokesperson declined comment “at this time” and agency representatives did not respond to a followup inquiry Friday morning.
