The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center has awarded a contract to Mission Conversion Services Alliance for the continued management and operation of all uranium hexafluoride activities at the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office, or PPPO.
According to an award notice posted on SAM.gov on Friday, the contract is potentially worth $1.1 billion, if all option are exercised. work covers such activities in the depleted uranium hexafluoride, or DUF6, conversion facilities and the X-340 complex in Paducah, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio, respectively.
The conversion facilities were built to convert DOE’s DUF6 inventory at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant to a more stable uranium oxide form for reuse, storage and transportation and disposition.
In a draft request for proposal released in 2022 for the PPPO support services, the DOE said it intended to award a potential $1.89 billion contract with a 10-year performance period.
Mid-America Conversion Services is the incumbent on the DUF6 Conversion Facilities contract.
