The Department of Energy’s Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center is in the market for small companies to support upcoming procurements in the weapons complex.
The Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) on Tuesday published a combined sources sought and request for information for small businesses designated as an Indian Tribe or Alaska Native Corporation and meeting a $19.5-million size standard to perform support services.
In particular, EMCBC is looking for entities to do procurement-related work including technical writing, special projects support and general acquisition support, according to materials filed with the May 16 notice in SAM.gov. Interested parties in the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program should file capability statements of up to 10 pages by 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time on June 13.
Oak Ridge, Tenn., City Council was scheduled to discuss its ongoing search for a new city manager during a regular meeting Tuesday May 16 following the May 5 retirement of Mark Watson, 68.
Watson is retiring after holding the Oak Ridge post for more than a dozen years. Watson has served as a city manager in four different municipalities during his career, he told Exchange Monitor earlier this year. Oak Ridge, which serves as a host city for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site and Y-12 Nuclear Security Complex, voted on March 22 to select GovHR USA as its executive search firm to identify a suitable successor.
GovHR USA was awarded a $23,500 contract and chosen from among seven executive search firms, according to the City Council materials. Included in the packet submitted to the Oak Ridge City Council is promotional information HRGov USA put together in 2021 when another DOE weapons complex city, Paducah, Ky., was seeking a new city manager. The Oak Ridger newspaper reported May 11 that Watson and his wife intend to continue living in Oak Ridge.
Ground was broken last week on a new 13,000-square-foot operational command center at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nevada National Security Site to consolidate emergency services into a single building.
NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator Frank Rose cut the ribbon for the Mercury 2 building on May 11. The new facility is among those to be built under a plan spanning fiscal years 2022 to 2026 and aimed at modernizing physical infrastructure throughout the NNSA enterprise, Rose said. More than 60 percent of the buildings and other original construction at NNSA sites is “beyond life expectancy,” Rose said.
