The Department of Energy on Feb. 14 confirmed the potential $21-billion integrated mission contract for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina will last up to 15 years.
“Task orders may be placed any time during the 10 year ordering period and the execution of the actual work may extend up to 5 years” afterward, a DOE spokesperson said by email.
This is similar to the approach DOE is taking in its draft request for proposals for the $6.4 billion Idaho Cleanup Project Contract. Both procurements were announced last week.
The Energy Department is skipping the draft RFP phase for Savannah River. But before issuing the final procurement notice for the SRS integrated mission contract, the agency will consider industry feedback to the draft RFP for remediation at the Idaho National Laboratory. Portions of the procurement not connected to work scope, such as contract administration, are much the same in both, the DOE spokesperson said. Applicable changes to the Idaho RFP could be applied to the SRS document.
Prospective bidders have until March 6 to file comments on the draft RFP for Idaho cleanup by emailing [email protected]. The contract at INL will replace two existing five-year agreements – the $1.86-billion remediation business held by Fluor Idaho and Spectra Tech’s $45-million spent fuel management job.
The SRS integrated mission procurement would largely replace the $6 billion liquid waste management business held since July 2009 by Savannah River Remediation, the joint venture led by Amentum, the former AECOM Management Services division now owned by New York-based investment firms. The award would also cover certain nuclear material management tasks.
The Energy Department has issued a 68-page document on the planned scope of work, ranging from tank closures to eventually taking over the operation of the Salt Waste Processing Facility built by Parsons. Comments on the Savannah River Site performance work statement should be sent by March 6 to [email protected].
A former Huntington Ingalls Industries executive and a retired U.S. Army brigadier general have been elected to the Board of Directors to Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve).
In a Tuesday press release, the Energy Department contractor announced the shareholder selection of Gerald Boyd, who retired from Huntington Ingalls last year, and former Brig. Gen. C. David Turner.
Boyd spent 21 years in the management ranks at DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, and is a former vice president of strategic business development, Nuclear and Environmental Group, in Huntington Ingalls’ Technical Solutions division.
Prior to joining the shipbuilder in 2011, Boyd managed DOE’s Oak Ridge Operations Office for eight years. He held a variety of management jobs during his Energy Department tenure, including a stint as deputy assistant secretary for science and technology for the nuclear cleanup office.
Turner, currently a senior adviser to Pro2Serve, spent 33 years with the U.S. Army, including periods as commanding general of the Corps of Engineers South Atlantic and San Francisco District.
He is also currently listed on LinkedIn as a vice president of MacDonald-Bedford, a management and consulting firm with architectural, engineering, and environmental services expertise.
Pro2Serve Chairman and CEO Barry Goss called the two new board members recognized leaders in the energy, environment, and national security fields. “Their knowledge and experience will be invaluable to our employee-owned company as we continue to support the critical missions of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Energy,” he said in the release.
Pro2Serve is an employee-owned company. A Pro2Serve subsidiary, Enterprise Technical Assistance Services (E-TAS), in August won a $137 million technical services contract for the Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. The company subsequently in December prevailed in a bid protest brought by a rival for the business. Pro2Serve already holds a technical services contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky that is set to expire in March.
