Orano Federal Services LLC

Orano Federal Services LLC, doing business as Areva, delivers uranium enrichment, fuel cycle management, and nuclear facility deactivation and decommissioning services to the Department of Energy as a prime contractor on multi-billion-dollar IDIQs and as a subcontractor on environmental remediation and advanced reactor development programs. The company is a foreign-owned for-profit limited liability partnership headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and competes full-and-open on its prime work — no set-asides designate any of its recent major awards.

Orano's capability portfolio centers on domestic uranium enrichment (low-enriched and high-assay low-enriched), spent fuel storage and transportation, nuclear material deconversion, facility deactivation and decommissioning, and advanced reactor technology support. The flagship prime engagement is a $900 million firm fixed price delivery order awarded by DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy on May 1, 2026, to establish new annual domestic commercial low-enriched uranium (LEU) capacity and initiate LEU production for DOE purchase, with performance through April 30, 2033, at Bethesda, Maryland. A supporting task order valued at $515 thousand was awarded April 11, 2025, for a report on deployment of new enrichment capacity. Orano also holds a $2.2 million delivery order from DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for spent fuel canister deposition demonstration project advisory services, and a $29,995 purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for a recovery tool.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of Energy. The top three funding agencies account for 92% of recent awards: DOE Office of Nuclear Energy (24 awards, $7.85 billion combined potential value), DOE Office of Environmental Management (8 awards, $3.01 billion combined potential value), and DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (25 awards, $18.7 million combined potential value). The two rankings diverge sharply — NNSA places more task orders by count but Nuclear Energy anchors the dollar value — reflecting a mix of smaller advisory-services work under older vehicles and massive multi-year enrichment capacity contracts under current IDIQs.

Orano holds three strategic IDIQs with DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy: a $3.4 billion Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU) Enrichment Master IDIQ awarded December 10, 2024, through December 31, 2034; a $2.7 billion High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) Enrichment Master IDIQ awarded October 16, 2024, through October 31, 2034; and an $800 million HALEU Deconversion Services Master IDIQ awarded October 4, 2024, through October 31, 2034. Orano also places task orders under legacy vehicles including the Nuclear Industry Advisory and Assistance Services Support and ONE Advisory and Assistance Services contracts, which together account for 25 task orders valued at $14.7 million combined potential value. The $900 million LEU delivery order sits under the HALEU Enrichment Master IDIQ as its parent vehicle.

Prime work accounts for 66% of recent awards (47 awards), with sub-awards constituting 34% (24 awards). As a subcontractor, Orano performs uranium storage monitoring, facility design and construction services, and groundwater remediation work under Triad National Security, LLC on Los Alamos National Laboratory operations; supports high burn-up dry storage cask demonstration and monitoring under Electric Power Research Institute; and contributes vitrification and tank disposition support under Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure, LLC and Central Plateau Cleanup Company, LLC. Orano also received grant sub-awards from GE Vernova Operations LLC, Southern Company Services, Inc., University of Texas at Austin, and TDA Research on advanced reactor development and dry storage technology projects.

Activity has accelerated significantly in recent years — two awards in 2021 to fourteen in 2024 — with the $900 million May 2026 delivery order representing a step change in contract scale. The source does not indicate a recompete cliff. SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $2.2 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $1.4 million; FY2023: $696 thousand; FY2024: $40 thousand), with a reported workforce scale of 5.1 FTEs in FY2022 declining to 1.3 FTEs in FY2024 on SCI-reportable contracts. SCI data captures only a small slice of Orano's federal work — the vast bulk of the company's revenue flows through the multi-billion-dollar IDIQs, which are not invoiced through routine SCI channels. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, Orano paid median government rates around $228/hr, with senior labor reaching $245/hr, and subcontracted an average of 8% of total contractor hours to two named subcontractors.