WC Monitor
1/22/2016
AT DOE
Portsmouth Mission Alliance of Idaho Falls, Idaho, will provide infrastructure support services at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, under a Department of Energy contract worth up to $140 million over about five years, the agency announced Jan. 15.
Under the firm-fixed-price deal, Portsmouth Mission Alliance will provide what amounts to support service required for the actual cleanup effort at the former uranium enrichment facility, DOE said in its press release. The deal includes a three-year base period and a 22-month option, DOE said.
The yearlong competition, which kicked off with a final request for proposals in December 2014, drew seven bids. DOE did not disclose the identities of the losing bidders. The award was a 100-percent set-aside for small businesses.
Portsmouth Mission Alliance now must provide services including: surveillance, maintenance and repair of facilities; janitorial services; grounds maintenance, snow removal, and pest control; roadway/parking lot maintenance; computing, telecommunication, and cyber security; fleet management; real and personal property management; records management and document control; safeguards and security; environment, safety, health and quality program; and training services.
The roughly 70-year-old Portsmouth site, located about 100 miles south of Columbus, Ohio, produced highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons and low-enriched uranium for commercial reactors. Fluor-B&W Portsmouth of Piketon is DOE’s prime contractor on the cleanup.
The Energy Department on Wednesday said it had awarded a maximum three-year, $1.14 million task order to North Wind Solutions of Knoxville, Tenn., for technology support services at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state.
The order is part of the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity West Valley Technical Assistance contract North Wind received in 2015. The five-year deal, worth up to $15 million, expires on Aug. 30, 2020.
Under the latest task order, North wind will provide “technical services for hardware and software maintenance, application development, network infrastructure support, and database administration for the West Valley Demonstration Project Data Management System,” which “manages environmental monitoring data that will be used to support decommissioning activities,” DOE said.
West Valley is a former commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing site about 35 miles south of Buffalo.
