Debriefings scheduled for today were offered to the teams that bid unsuccessfully on a consolidated contract to manage the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge and Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas.
The unsuccessful bidders have up to 10 days to protest the decision to award the five-year contract to Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC, or CNS, a team that includes Bechtel National Inc. and Lockheed Martin Services Inc. The contract award was announced Tuesday, Jan. 8.
In an e-mail response to questions, Joshua McConaha, director of public affairs for the National Nuclear Security Administration, said the protest process changes if the unsuccessful bidders wait longer than five days.
McConaha was not immediately available for follow-up questions on Wednesday, including whether any of the unsuccessful teams had requested the debriefings or to say where the debriefings would be held.
The NNSA has declined to say how many teams bid on the contract or name them. But Babcock and Wilcox Co., or B&W, released a statement the day the contract award was announced, suggesting the company had been a member of one of the bidding teams. B&W, a partner on the current contract, said it was disappointed that its team was not selected to lead the new five-year management and operating, or M&O, contract.
Besides managing and operating Y-12 and Pantex, CNS will also manage construction of the Uranium Processing Facility at Y-12 and could manage tritium operations at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. The company’s contract could be extended for up to five more years.
The four-month transition to CNS was to begin immediately last week, and CNS will take over the work at Y-12 and Pantex on May 1, the NNSA said.
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