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Wednesday, August 30, 2017
No one wanted to keep the present team.
Others may want to add in as they wish, but there were usual suspects at the NNSA bidders day. UC, Bechtel,BWTX, UT and others showed up to the event. About all that was clear is that no one wanted to keep the present team.
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From the Exchange Monitor:
The University of Texas is exploring a bid to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory after receiving the green light Thursday from its Board of Regents. The regents approved bid preparations that could cost up to $4.5 million in a Thursday meeting at the University
BWXT? Really out to lunch on that happening. They lost Y-12 contract after the 82 year old nun made it all the way to the uranium facility and banged on the wall with a hammer and spray painted graffiti on the wall. Then they really ticked off NNSA by protesting the contract for way over a year. NNSA has a clear bias against these problem contractors and it showed at the Sandia contract when the BWXT team was the lowest ranked of all teams bidding.
BWXT also lost the Kansas City competition and lost the NNSS completion in both the initial round and the final round after the contract award was rescinded from Leidos.
The problem is that there are zero good people out there with experience. The usual suspects try to beautify the pig by putting lipstick on it. Just look at Charlie/LANS and their recent hires: Gibbs and Wantuck. Two old LANL people from a past equally troubled as the present. Charlie didn't look to th UC base, so any UC bid will not be successful cause the good people just don't exist. Bechtel never set its best people to LANS because it wasn't financially lucrative. LANL served its purpose for Bechtel by becoming a dumping ground for its C students. BWXT and URS have destroyed TA55 to the point that no work can be done, safe or otherwise. NNSA should have told these folks to stay for the free refreshments at the open house but don't bother to apply.
Well if these are the players then it is just going to be a shuffling of team members. You will need a University, an operator, and an infrastructure manager.... The only of those variables with 2 participants appears to be UC and UT.... This could get to the point of 2 bids max. Expect RFP changes to attract more bidders.
The only of those variables with 2 participants appears to be UC and UT.... This could get to the point of 2 bids max. Expect RFP changes to attract more bidders.
I doubt they want more bidders since it is going to be one of these two. One of the issue was that if the fee is to high you are going to get the wrong kind of groups bidding. NNSA has stated that want to return to a service oriented model rather than a profit motive model.
10 comments:
From the Exchange Monitor:
The University of Texas is exploring a bid to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory after receiving the green light Thursday from its Board of Regents. The regents approved bid preparations that could cost up to $4.5 million in a Thursday meeting at the University
BWXT?
Really out to lunch on that happening. They lost Y-12 contract after the 82 year old nun made it all the way to the uranium facility and banged on the wall with a hammer and spray painted graffiti on the wall. Then they really ticked off NNSA by protesting the contract for way over a year. NNSA has a clear bias against these problem contractors and it showed at the Sandia contract when the BWXT team was the lowest ranked of all teams bidding.
Any other interest? This list looks like a reunion, not a contract bid walk.
If not, expect a significant RFP change including an up in profit/fee to 3%.
BWXT also lost the Kansas City competition and lost the NNSS completion in both the initial round and the final round after the contract award was rescinded from Leidos.
Is Leidos bidding for LANL?
Expect Ray Juzaitis to play into the UT bid, another ego.
The problem is that there are zero good people out there with experience. The usual suspects try to beautify the pig by putting lipstick on it. Just look at Charlie/LANS and their recent hires: Gibbs and Wantuck. Two old LANL people from a past equally troubled as the present. Charlie didn't look to th UC base, so any UC bid will not be successful cause the good people just don't exist. Bechtel never set its best people to LANS because it wasn't financially lucrative. LANL served its purpose for Bechtel by becoming a dumping ground for its C students. BWXT and URS have destroyed TA55 to the point that no work can be done, safe or otherwise. NNSA should have told these folks to stay for the free refreshments at the open house but don't bother to apply.
Well if these are the players then it is just going to be a shuffling of team members. You will need a University, an operator, and an infrastructure manager.... The only of those variables with 2 participants appears to be UC and UT.... This could get to the point of 2 bids max. Expect RFP changes to attract more bidders.
The only of those variables with 2 participants appears to be UC and UT.... This could get to the point of 2 bids max. Expect RFP changes to attract more bidders.
I doubt they want more bidders since it is going to be one of these two. One of the issue was that if the fee is to high you are going to get the wrong kind of groups bidding. NNSA has stated that want to return to a service oriented model rather than a profit motive model.
Owen is another recent AD hire.
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