DOE Issues Final Request for Proposal for Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office Technical Support Services Contract

Cincinnati – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Final Request for Proposal (RFP), 89303324REM000120, for the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) Technical Support Services (TSS) procurement. 

The contractor will be required to provide technical and administrative support to assist DOE with the oversight and management of: 

• Clean-up activities;
• Decontamination and Decommissioning activities;
• Depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF₆ ) operations;
• All aspects of on-site contractor operations, including:
  • General construction activities;
  • On-Site Waste Disposal Facility project related investigative and construction activities;
  • Geotechnical and design documents; and
  • Regulatory compliance activities at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP)/site in Pike County, Ohio; the Paducah GDP/site in Paducah, Kentucky; and DUF₆/Operation and Site Mission Support offices in Lexington, Kentucky; and to provide services for the PPPO federal office located in Lexington, Kentucky.

The contractor will also be required to provide services to the following: 

• Various technical engineering support functions;
• Information technology infrastructure and cybersecurity support;
• Safeguards and security oversight support; and 
• General administrative support for all the PPPO sites.

The TSS procurement will be conducted as a small business set-aside competition. The North American Industry Classification System code for this requirement is 562910, Environmental Remediation Services, and the small business size standard is 1,000 employees.   

A dedicated webpage has been established for the TSS procurement:  https://www.emcbc.doe.gov/SEB/PPPOTSS/. The Final RFP will also be posted to the Fedconnect website at: https://www.fedconnect.net. 

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 at: /em/portsmouth and /em/paducah.