Leidos-led Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, the landlord contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state is in the market for a sub to replace old electric power lines and related equipment at the former plutonium production complex.
In an online procurement notice this week, the site management contractor said it was seeking a provider to tear down 13.8 Kilovolt (kV) electrical utility lines, poles, supporting hardware, and transformers in the Hanford Site’s 100 Area.
Bids on the work are due by 3 p.m. Pacific Time on June 27. There is a pre-proposal conference and site visit at 2 p.m. Pacific Time May 18. The contact person is contract specialist Jennifer Bunn, [email protected].
The Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state only lost 12 acres to wildfire on the 580-square-mile property during 2022, due partly to controlled burns and other risk reduction steps overseen by the Leidos-led landlord contractor, the agency said Tuesday.
By contrast, in June 2020, a wildfire started by lightning charred 5,000 acres on Gable Mountain near the center of Hanford, DOE said at the time. Contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS), which is responsible for the site’s fire department, schedules planned burns throughout the year, DOE said in the Tuesday news release.
During winter, the Hanford Site Fire Department used controlled burns to get rid of 68,000 cubic yards of brush and tumble weed, DOE said in the release. That’s enough dry vegetation to take up three football fields, DOE said.
Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration, the Department of Energy contractor running the 222-S Laboratory at the Hanford Site in Washington state, said Wednesday it is now calling itself Navarro-ATL.
The contractor said in a press release that it has filed “doing business as” paperwork with the Washington State Department of Revenue and will now be known as Navarro-ATL.
Navarro-ATL is a mash-up of the names of the two joint venture partners, Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Navarro Research and Engineering; and Gaithersburg, Md.-based Advanced Technologies and Laboratories. The team was awarded the small business contract, currently valued at $512 million, for management of the 222-S laboratory in September 2020 and took over in April 2021. The venture is in the five-year base of a potential seven-year contract that includes two one-year option periods, according to DOE. During the 2022 fiscal year, it took home 77% of its subjective fee and 92% of its overall potential fee, roughly $2.5 million out of $2.7 million, on its fee scorecard.
Two Department of Energy nuclear sites, the Idaho National Laboratory and the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, have already replaced about 70% of their light-duty fleet with “zero-emissions” vehicles, DOE said this week.
These federal properties and other DOE Office of Environmental Management cleanup sites are working toward the Biden administration’s electrification target of replacing 100% of federal light-duty vehicles with zero-emission models by 2027, according to a DOE press release. Zero-emission autos include “battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and fuel cell electric vehicles,” according to the White House.
A $20-million Department of Energy grant to finance replacement of the Zahn’s Corner Middle School near the Portsmouth Site in Pike County, Ohio, has been issued to the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), announced this week.
The school replacement money was included in the fiscal 2023 federal budget package. Zahn’s Corner Middle School closed in 2019 after evidence of radiological contamination registered on a nearby DOE air monitor, Brown said.
Since the school closed, multiple lawsuits against current and former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant contractors have been brought in federal court in Ohio.
