WC Monitor
3/20/2015
IN CONGRESS
Acting DOE cleanup chief Mark Whitney is among those scheduled to testify before the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee during a hearing set for next week. The March 24 hearing is also set to include National Nuclear Security Administration chief Frank Klotz and Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Vice Chairman Jesse Roberson. The hearing will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Room 2118 of the Rayburn House office Building.
IN DOE
The Department of Energy expects to issue by the end of this month a final Request for Proposals for a planned small business contract to manage Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed facilities at DOE’s Idaho site and the Fort St. Vrain facility in Colorado, Jack Surash, deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management in the DOE Office of Environmental Management, said this week. “We are running a little behind on this one,” Surash said in remarks during this year’s Waste Management conference in Phoenix, adding that “no big issues” were the cause for the delay. The new contract is being set-aside for small businesses, and it is expected to run for up to five years, consisting of a four-year base period and a one-year option period.
IN THE INDUSTRY
Los Alamos National Security, LLC, has moved David Funk to be the new acting deputy associate director in the Associate Directorate of Environmental Programs. Funk has been with the lab since 1991, and has most recently worked for the Weapons Experiments Division at Los Alamos. “At ADEP, he will assist with TRU recovery efforts after serving as one of the leaders of a team of scientists investigating what caused a Los Alamos drum to breach underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,” according to a LANS release. ADEP Acting Associate Director Randy Erickson said in a statement: “Dave’s strong line management experience and his technical expertise in energetic materials make him highly qualified to help us implement needed improvements and resume our essential mission activities.”
Trinity Engineering Associates, an 8(a) small business, won a contract this week to provide technical support services to the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Consolidated Business Center. The four-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract has a maximum value of $4 million. Work to be performed under the contract includes quality assurance support, safety support, radiological protection support, emergency management support and technical writing support.
