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 the 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.
