Justification for other than full and open competition for procurement to store DOE transuranic (TRU) waste at waste control specialists LLC (WCS)
Awarded Limited / Sole Source Justification Posted
- Solicitation number
- 89303424REM000002
- Agency
-
Office of Environmental Management
Department of Energy
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- Contract number
- 89303321GEM000020-89303424FEM400022 Federal contract award
- Awardee
- Waste Control Specialists LLC
- NAICS code
- 562211 Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal
- PSC
- F999 Other Environmental Services
- Place of performance
- Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This Limited / Sole Source Justification Notice is for the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management to procure continued storage and loading support services for 74 containers of transuranic (TRU) waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The waste has been stored at the Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) facility in Andrews, Texas since 2014 and cannot be transferred to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant as originally planned due to reactive events that occurred there. This sole source procurement, with an estimated value not to exceed $17 million, will be awarded against an existing Basic Ordering Agreement to WCS, the only contractor authorized to perform these services at the WCS facility. DOE plans to remove the waste from the WCS site by the end of 2026.
Notice text
The services to be provided include technical and administrative services for the continued
storage of the 74 DOE LANL TRU waste containers at WCS and support loading so that the
waste can be transported to an offsite facility at the end of the storage period. The waste has
been in storage at WCS since 2014.
DOE sent TRU mixed waste from DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to the WCS
Site in Andrews County, Texas for temporary storage in April 2014. This action was intended
to be a short-term step that would allow the waste to be shipped to WIPP when WIPP recovered
from a radiological event and began accepting waste for disposal. However, the cause of the
WIPP radiological event was later determined to be an exothermic reaction between organic
materials and nitrate salts inside a LANL waste drum. Subsequent to the shipment of the LANL
waste to the WCS Site, DOE determined that some of the waste at WCS was from the same
population that produced the reactive event at WIPP, which prevented transfer of the LANL
waste at the WCS Site to WIPP as originally planned. Over the past nine years, DOE has
completed a number of studies and evaluations to confirm that the waste can be removed from
WCS storage and transferred to WIPP. In June 2023, DOE informed the Texas Attorney
General’s office that it plans to move its 74 containers of TRU waste out of the WCS site by the end of 2026. In the meantime, this procurement is necessary because it will provide for required storage support prior to the transfer from the WCS site.
This procurement is applicable only to the TRU waste containers in storage since 2014 and
does not involve any onsite treatment or disposal of the waste at the WCS site. The estimated
value of the resulting order is not expected to exceed $17M.
Awarded contract 89303321GEM000020 to unknown vendor for unknown amount on 2024-09-12.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition.pdf |
Notice history
| Notice | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| This notice | Limited / Sole Source Justification | |
| Transuranic/Greater-Than-Class-C Waste Storage Services | Pre-Solicitation |
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