The cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has extended the deadline for proposals from subcontractors interested in providing off-site environmental analysis.
In an updated notice posted Jan. 22 on FedBizOpps.gov, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) said the deadline had been pushed back from Jan. 21 to 2 p.m. Mountain time on Feb. 1. Bid packages should be submitted to [email protected].
N3B also answered questions submitted by prospective subcontractors. The contractor said the prospective subcontractor should be accredited under National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC) standards administered by the state of Utah.
The subcontract could run for up to four years, with extensions, through April 2023.
The subcontractor will provide off-site laboratory tests on soil, water, and debris samples. N3B will be responsible for sampling and for the cost of shipping the samples to the analytical lab.
The purpose of sampling is to detect environmental constituents of concern in groundwater, surface water, and soil, or on equipment. Sampling is done before and after remediation to check the effectiveness of the work. The current subcontractor is ARS International, which N3B uses through a LANL enterprise subcontract. ARS has been kept on until the new legacy cleanup vendor settles on its own provider.
There is no fixed price for the contract. “There will be prices for analyses, so it depends of what we analyze for and how often,” said N3B spokesman Todd Nelson.
Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos has a 10-year, $1.4 billion legacy remediation contract through April 2028, provided DOE exercises all options.
