DOE awards SRS integrated mission completion contract
EM Update | 10/28/2021
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Yesterday, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded Savannah River Mission Completion, LLC (SRMC) of Lynchburg, VA, the Integrated Mission Completion Contract (IMCC) at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina.
The single-award Master Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with an estimated contract ceiling of approximately $21 billion over a 10-year ordering period will have Cost Reimbursement and Fixed Price Task Orders to define the contract performance. The IMCC contract exemplifies DOE’s commitment to continue supporting a highly skilled, diverse workforce that provides approximately 2,500 jobs that pay prevailing wages in safe and healthy
workplaces. The contract ensures workers have the right to organize, join a union, and bargain collectively with their employers. Union-represented workers currently make up approximately 24 percent of the total workforce.
The potential scope of the SRS IMCC IDIQ procurement will include the following: Liquid Waste Stabilization and Disposition (including but not limited to: Bulk Waste Removal, Tank Farm Operations and Cesium Removal, Defense Waste Processing Facility Operations and Vitrification of High Level Waste, Glass Waste Storage Facility Modifications and Expansion, Salt Waste Processing Facility Operations, Saltstone Facility Operations and Construction of Saltstone Disposal
Units, Waste Removal and Treatment (including Saltstone Facilities), Liquid Waste Tank and Associated Facilities Closure, Base Operations, Liquid Waste Program Support) and potentially Nuclear Materials Management and Stabilization. The contractor will perform these services under task orders issued off the master Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract.
The procurement was competed as a full-and-open competition, and EM received four proposals. The Department determined the SRMC proposal provided the best value to the Government considering Key Personnel, Past Performance, Management Approach, and Cost and Fee to achieve measurable results toward completion of the DOE-EM mission at the SRS Site.
SRMC, LLC is a single purpose operating entity that includes the following members: BWXT Technical Services Group, Inc., Fluor Federal Services, Inc., and AECOM Energy & Construction, Inc., an Amentum Company. SRMC’s small business teaming subcontractors include WesWorks, LCC and DBD Inc.
The majority of the services will be performed at the SRS Site, near Aiken, South Carolina.
ECA will continue to provide information on the type, timing, and value of major EM contract awards as DOE continues to announce them. To read more, please visit http://www.energyca.org/doe-contracts.
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GAO Report: NNSA has taken steps to improve its work authorization process, but challenges remain
GAO Report | 10/27/2021
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has taken steps to improve its process for developing, reviewing, and issuing work authorizations (WA) for its management and operating (M&O) contractors, according to a recent GAO report. Such authorizations specify the activities to be conducted in a given fiscal year by the
contractors that operate NNSA's sites (see figure). However, NNSA continues to face challenges issuing WAs before the start of the fiscal year, as generally required by NNSA's directive on WAs.
As part of its efforts to improve the agency's WA process, NNSA convened an internal working group in 2017 and 2018 to review the process. In October 2018, the working group recommended that NNSA's program offices submit draft WAs for review by August 15 each year. This recommendation was intended to ensure that field-based contracting officers and M&O contractor representatives finalized and issued WAs by the start of each fiscal year. However, NNSA continued to
experience delays in issuing WAs by the start of fiscal year 2020, in part because NNSA does not have a schedule with required deadlines for review and revisions of draft WAs. Contractors that begin work without a WA in place by the start of the fiscal year risk incurring unallowable costs. Further, delays in issuing WAs may require duplicative efforts, such as the need to create interim “stopgap” WAs.
According to NNSA officials and M&O contractor representatives, WAs are an input for setting contractor performance expectations against which to monitor. However, when GAO reviewed performance evaluation reports for each contractor for fiscal years 2019 and 2020, GAO found that the reports did not clearly reference the performance expectations contained in WAs. NNSA officials confirmed that performance expectations contained in WAs cannot generally be
traced to contractor's performance evaluation reports. This lack of traceability occurred in part because NNSA does not have clearly documented procedures specifying how officials should collect and use performance information, including from WAs, for evaluating contractor performance. This issue is similar to one on which GAO previously reported in February 2019 and made a recommendation for NNSA to develop such documented procedures. NNSA concurred with the recommendation but has not fully
implemented it. GAO continues to believe that improving the ability to trace performance expectations to performance ratings would enable NNSA to more consistently evaluate contractor performance.
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