Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Operations Acquisition

The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center is seeking information to support the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Operations Acquisition. Major elements of the current contract scope include transuranic waste operations at generator sites and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, mining and ground control operations, facility operations, program management and business activities, research and development programs, and potential future projects. Capability statements are requested by August 5, 2020 to inform the acquisition strategy for replacing the current Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Management and Operating contract with Nuclear Waste Partnership, LLC.

There is no set-aside designated for this procurement. The current incumbent is Nuclear Waste Partnership, LLC, managing operations since 2011. As one of the United States' deep geologic repositories for permanent disposal of transuranic radioactive waste, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant has operated for over 20 years under the oversight of the Department of Energy Carlsbad Field Office, with the current management contract value estimated at $2 billion over 10 years.