The Department of Energy is giving interested bidders two extra weeks to submit proposals for the new Occupational Medical Contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state, according to a procurement notice published this week.
Response to the partial request for proposals that came out last month are now due April 24 rather than the earlier April 10 date, according to the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center notice. The notice also announced publication of certain amendments on specifics, including what types of business experience are considered relevant by DOE. A new batch of questions and answers about the procurement was also posted this week.
The $152-million contract held by incumbent HPM Corp. was awarded in January 2019 is currently scheduled to end Dec. 31.
Department of Energy contractor North Wind started site preparation this week on the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative center going up at a university near the Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina.
The Savannah River Site announced the construction start of the 60,000-square-foot building at the University of South Carolina Aiken campus in a Wednesday press release. The facility is expected to be completed in 2024 and will be managed and operated by the Savannah River National Laboratory.
The Savannah River National Laboratory has many aging facilities so the modern $50-million project will be a welcomed addition, Ming Zhu, agency senior adviser for laboratory policy, told a Wednesday gathering of citizen advisory board leaders in Washington, D.C. Internal reviews by DOE in recent years have rated two-thirds of the facilities at the Savannah River lab “substandard or inadequate for modern technology development,” he said.
Department of Energy contractors have finished moving a tranche of spent nuclear fuel from wet-to-dry storage at the Idaho National Laboratory under an agreement with the state of Idaho, DOE said in a Tuesday press release.
The last spent nuclear fuel retrieved earlier this month from the water-filed basin at the Idaho Nuclear Technical and Engineering Center was originally used in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II. Over the years, spent fuel has been transferred to dry storage pads at the technical and engineering center, the Naval Reactors Facility and the Materials and Fuels Complex, DOE’s cleanup manager for the lab, Connie Flohr, said in the press release.
DOE Office of Environmental Management senior adviser William (Ike) White, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) and other officials will mark the milestone in a March 28 ceremony at Idaho National Laboratory.
41 teams of police dogs and their handlers participated in the recent U.S. Canine Association’s annual regional spring detection trials at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, according to a press release.
The long-running event was jointly hosted by the Savannah River Site Law Enforcement Department, Aiken County Sheriff’s Office, Aiken Department of Public Safety and North Augusta Department of Public Safety, according to the release.
The trials help dog/handler teams from Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina become certified in areas such as detection of illegal drugs or bombs, according to the DOE release.
