The Department of Energy’s environmental management office has released a draft solicitation for a potential 10-year, $5.87 billion follow-on contract to perform decontamination and decommissioning work at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio.
The Portsmouth Decontamination and Decommissioning contract includes support for the demolition and disposal of GDP process equipment, facilities and related process buildings, disposition of uranium material and remediation of contaminated groundwater and soils, DOE said Tuesday.
PORTS D&D is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under the End State Contracting Model with an ordering period of 10 years. Performance period under issued task orders should not exceed five years beyond the end of the IDIQ contract’s ordering term.
DOE said emergency management, physical security, uranium operations, utilities, nuclear material control and accountability and other enduring operations under the original PORTS D&D contract will transition to the upcoming Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office Operations and Site Mission Support or PPPO OSMS contract to enable the new PORTS D&D contractor to focus on end-state completion.
The selected contractor will be required to submit a community commitment plan to DOE under the PORTS D&D contract, which includes a 5 percent preference for regional small businesses for the award of subcontracts.
A joint venture of Fluor (NYSE: FLR) and BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, is the incumbent on the first iteration of the PORTS D&D contract.
DOE will hold one-on-one sessions for the contract on Jan. 25. Comments on the draft request for proposals are due Feb. 3.
