CONTRACTING & ACQUISITIONMulti-billion-dollar Hanford bidding process
delayed Tri-City Herald | July 17, 2018
The Department of Energy has delayed the release of its draft request for bids for a new central Hanford cleanup contract, but should have it available by the end of September, it announced Tuesday.
The delay was not explained. DOE said in April that the draft document would be released between early May and early June.
CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. now holds a central Hanford cleanup contract that is set to expire at the end of September after a decade.
DOE said in June that the CH2M contract likely would be extended for up to a year to allow time to get the new contract awarded.
Nuclear material stolen from Energy Department car Federal Times | July 17, 2018
WASHINGTON — Two nuclear security experts for the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory lost samples of plutonium and cesium, materials that can be used in nuclear and radioactive bombs, after their
rental car was broken into in March 2017.
The agents — in possession of radiation detectors and small amounts of the radioactive materials needed to calibrate the devices — traveled from the national lab to San Antonio, Texas, in order to secure additional nuclear materials from a nonprofit research lab to be returned to Idaho.
As first
reported by the San Antonio Express, the DOE agents made a critical error, stopping at a Marriott hotel located in a high-crime neighborhood for the night. Rather than take the nuclear equipment with them, the agents left the sensors and small samples unconcealed on the back seat of their rented Ford Expedition. In the morning, the back window of the vehicle had been broken and the sensitive material stolen.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Department of Energy
Issues $2 Billion Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program Solicitation U.S. Department of Energy | July 17, 2018 WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued the
first loan guarantee solicitation for the Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program (TELGP) under DOE's Loan Programs Office. This solicitation provides as much as $2 billion in partial loan guarantees to support economic opportunities for Native American and Alaska Native communities through energy development projects and activities.
“The Department has heard from tribes that they
can have difficulty accessing the debt capital necessary to finance energy development projects that will benefit Indian country,” said Secretary of Energy Rick Perry. “Through TELGP, the Department will work in partnership with private sector lenders to help them better understand the unique characteristics of tribal energy opportunities and catalyze future private sector investment that will have a meaningful impact on tribal economies and help advance the Administration’s infrastructure
agenda.”
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