DOE Awards Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Operations and Site Mission Support Contract

CINCINNATI - On Nov. 8, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office (PPPO) Operations and Site Mission Support Services (OSMS) contract to Mission Conversion Services Alliance LLC (MCSA) of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The contract is for work to be performed at the Paducah Site in southwest Kentucky, Lexington Field Office in northeast Kentucky and Portsmouth Site in southern Ohio. It was formerly known as the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Contract.

MCSA is a newly formed limited liability company made up of Atkins Nuclear Secured LLC, Westinghouse Government Services LLC, and Jacobs Technology Inc. Teaming subcontractors are Swift & Staley Inc. and Akima Centerra Integrated Services LLC.

The cost-plus-award-fee contract with indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract line items has a value of $2.3 billion. The contract has a transition period of 120 days and a base contract period of five years with two additional option periods - for three years and two years - for a maximum contract length of 10 years and four months. The contract includes requirements for meaningful work to be performed by small business.

EM received four proposals in response to the solicitation that were evaluated for the new contract. Through a healthy and rigorous competition, EM determined the MCSA proposal provided the best value to the government considering key personnel, technical and management approach, past performance, and total evaluated price, resulting in a new contract with a highly capable team at PPPO OSMS.

Work to be performed under the new PPPO OSMS contract will include, but not be limited to, consolidated uranium material processing, cylinder management and operations, and mission support. Examples of the work to be performed include the site emergency management program, utilities operations, fire services, protective force, nuclear material control and accountability, and the criticality accident alarm system at the Portsmouth Site.

To focus the new Portsmouth decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) contractor on end state completion, operations scope under the D&D contract with Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth LLC will transfer to the OSMS Contract. This work will include utilities, emergency management, physical security, uranium transfers, and nuclear material control and accountability.

Additionally, operations scope under the Paducah Deactivation and Remediation Contract with Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership will transfer to the OSMS Contract. This work will include utilities, emergency management, physical security, and nuclear material control and accountability. To ensure a smooth transition of scope and workforce, the transition periods for the new OSMS and D&D contracts will be aligned. Effective scope and transition alignment between the contracts is necessary for workforce continuity and will allow for a more strategic focus on the work at the Portsmouth Site.

With continued stable funding for the OSMS sites, no site workforce impacts are expected with transition to the OSMS contractor. Competitive and comparable benefits will also continue under the new contracts.

The PPPO OSMS Contract will promote community commitment and engagement. Submission of a community commitment plan to DOE is required and the contract will also provide for a reliance with regional vendors and purchasing preference for subcontracting to regional small businesses in the Paducah and Portsmouth regions.

For more than 30 years, EM has remained focused on addressing the environmental legacy of nuclear weapons development and nuclear energy research that helped end World War II, win the Cold War and position the United States as a leader in clean nuclear energy. Collectively, EM is delivering results that are protecting the environment, supporting communities and enabling a concerted focus on safely completing the mission sooner and more efficiently.

Additional information regarding the project is available here.