BWXT Y-12, L.L.C. Awards NAVARRO-GEM Joint Venture $20 Million Solid Waste Management Services Contract for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Y-12 National Security Complex (NSC) in Oak Ridge, TN |
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OAK RIDGE, TN — The Navarro-GEM Joint Venture has been awarded a two year base with three option years contract for an expected value of approximately $20 million. The Navarro-GEM Joint Venture was formed by Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc. (Navarro) and GEM Technologies, Inc. (GEM). Navarro-GEM was selected by BWXT Y-12, L.L.C, the prime contractor for NNSA, in a competitive procurement to perform the management of waste acceptance and verification, collection, management, storage, transportation, treatment and disposition of solid wastes generated at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Their major subcontractor is EnergySolutions, LLC (formerly Duratek Federal Services).
Navarro-GEM began transition activities on October 2nd to provide for the safe, compliant and cost-effective storage and disposition of industrial chemical waste, hazardous waste, low-level radioactive waste and mixed low-level radioactive waste. Navarro-GEM will take over operations on December 18, 2006 that includes the management and operations of five existing waste storage and segregation facilities. One of their primary objectives is to implement operational efficiencies while demonstrating environmental compliance in order to better support the current and future demands for waste disposition at the Y-12 NSC.
Navarro is a premier contractor to the Department of Energy (DOE) and the NNSA providing environmental, national security, renewable energy and energy efficiency, nuclear, quality and safety services. Navarro, a woman–owned small disadvantaged business, ranked as one of the fastest growing businesses in the country three years in a row by Inc. Magazine, now has over three hundred fifty employees working in fourteen offices and twenty-three project locations nationwide. GEM provides engineering, construction, demolition, waste management and nuclear technical services to the DOE. GEM is an 8(a) small disadvantaged business headquartered in the Oak Ridge area and has provided technical services to the DOE, NNSA and its contractors since 1994.
EnergySolutions, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah since 2004, provides a full range of waste management solutions, including decommissioning, decontamination, site closure, nuclear materials management and the safe, secure disposition of nuclear waste.