Tuesday, September 26, 2017
LANS gets 6 month extension to run EM contract
It is starting to appear that the current team of LANS will get to keep all the contracts for the future.
https://energy.gov/em/articles/doe-extends-los-alamos-national-laboratory-cleanup-bridge-contracthttps://energy.gov/em/articles/doe-extends-los-alamos-national-laboratory-cleanup-bridge-contract
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The article doesn't say that LANS will keep the contracts into the future at all. What it does say is the clean-up BRIDGE contract was extended. The bridge contract WILL expire as will LANS.
It just means that additional procurement time is required to award the contract. A new cost type contract requires many preaward activities that can take months to finalize and also, there aren't that many NNSA contracting people.
Your fonts are broken again... Very bigly type...
The new cleanup contract will be though the Office of Environmental Management, not NNSA. But I agree, the original poster has completely exaggerated what the announcement means.
Lots of confusion shown in some of the posts here. The original LANS contract included EM work, and that was split out as a separate contract after the WIPP drum explosion. The oversight of the prime contract, minus the EM work, remains with NNSA. Meanwhile, the DOE EM office issued a short term contract (called the bridge) to continue the work that was on-going under the original NNSA prime contract. LANS also won this bridge competition from EM. EM proceeded to have a RFP for long term management of the legacy LANL waste, it has now concluded the open period and DOE has not yet made a selection for the new contractor. All the press release indicated is that LANS will keep the bridge for another 6 months.
With all that out of the way, there is a good chance that the delay in the EM contract will cascade and cause a delay in the prime contract.
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