The Department of Energy Thursday issued an updated request for information on Phase 1B of cleanup of the West Valley Demonstration Project, located 35 miles south of Buffalo, N.Y., basically replacing an earlier notice issued in October 2018.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management is doing acquisition planning for the potential contract award for completion of Phase 1B deactivation and demolition and soil remediation at the site that is owned by New York state. The current Phase 1 cleanup contractor is Jacobs-led CH2MHill-Babcock and Wilcox West Valley, LLC. The incumbent has been in place since Aug. 29, 2011 under a contract, valued at $836 million, scheduled to expire on Aug. 29, 2024.
Comments on the current request for information are due by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Feb. 24 and should be emailed to [email protected].
The vice president of business development for Amentum’s national security group, Mark Morgan, said last week via social media he is resigning to “step back, take a break and explore new challenges.”
“This was not an easy decision,” Morgan said in a Thursday post on LinkedIn, adding he would update his online profile “when I decide where I’ll start the next chapter of my career.” Morgan did not specify the date of his departure.
Morgan has held his current job since October 2020, coming to Amentum after holding positions with similar titles at Atkins Nuclear and EnergySolutions. In all Morgan has spent more than 25 years in management posts for nuclear, energy or engineering-related organizations, according to his online LinkedIn profile.
Small businesses seeking a foothold in the $7.8-billion procurement market for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management can meet one-on-one with an agency representative at the upcoming Waste Management Symposia in Phoenix.
Environmental Management will hold individual meetings with small businesses attending the Waste Management Symposia gathering, Feb. 27 – March 2 at the Phoenix Convention Center, according to a special notice posted Feb. 10 in on a government procurement website.
“DOE is focused on advancing equity in procurement for small businesses and interested in feedback” in areas such as barriers to entry on both the prime and subcontractor level, according to the notice. To set up a meeting, contact Anne Marie Bird, small business program manager for DOE’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center, by emailing [email protected].
Work schedules are back to normal at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico following a snow day, which suspended the majority of onsite operations on Wednesday, an agency spokesperson said by email.
Although Los Alamos County is expected to warm up to 37 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday, the wind chill factor will again make it feel like below- zero, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
High temperatures Saturday and Sunday were expected to warm into the 40s. It might make for a decent weekend for lab employees to venture to the nearby PaJaRito Ski Resort, which has received about two feet of snow over the past week, according to its website.
Starting this year, the Phoenix-based Roy G. Post Foundation will provide a total of $100,000 to colleges and universities located near Department of Energy nuclear sites for education support, with a focus on minority-serving institutions, the foundation announced Feb. 7.
The $100,000 will be used for either new or existing scholarship programs at the colleges, according to the foundation. This is in addition to the foundation’s existing competitive scholarships to graduate and undergraduate students internationally interested in a nuclear career. Roy Post helped found the Waste Management Symposia. Information on the Post Foundation can be found here.
