The Department of Energy’s solicitation for completion of deactivation and demolition work at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state should hit the streets by the end of December, the agency said Tuesday.
But the West Valley Demonstration Project Phase 1B cleanup is the only major request for proposals expected from the DOE cleanup office over the next six months, the agency’s Office of Environmental Management said in a quarterly update notice on the System for Award Management website, SAM.gov.
In February DOE published a request for information for deactivation, tear-down and soil remediation, known as Phase 1B, at West Valley. The winner would replace Jacobs-led CH2M Hill – BWXT West Valley. The incumbent contract, currently valued at $919 million, started in August 2011 and is not scheduled to expire until February 2025. The current contract focuses chiefly on taking down above-ground structures.
For a six-year period that ended in 1972, the company Nuclear Fuel Services ran a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant on the 200-acre West Valley site, located within the 3,300-acre Western New York Nuclear Service Center. While the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority owns the West Valley site itself, the West Valley Demonstration Project Act of 1980, made DOE responsible for the cleanup and paying 90% of the remediation cost. The state kicks in the remainder.
Questions on the DOE update can be sent to the procurement director for the Cincinnati-based Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center, Aaron Deckard, by emailing [email protected].
