Cincinnati – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of a contract to Neptune and Company, Inc. for the WVDP-PPA procurement that will provide support to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) in performing a probabilistic analysis to support the Phase 2 Decision making Alternative for the West Valley Demonstration Project and Western New York Nuclear Service Center. This is a Time-and-Material contract with an approximate value of $4,300,000.00 with a base period of three years and one two-year option. Two proposals were received in response to this solicitation.

The work to be performed under the contract is to perform a probabilistic analysis for Phase 2 of the Phased Decision making Alternative that includes the following four elements: (1) perform sensitivity analyses to provide near-term direction to site data collection activities, (2) transition existing components of a deterministic performance assessment (PA) to a probabilistic modeling platform to identify changes necessary in the model structure, input parameter distribution, the need for additional data, or the need for different modeling approaches, (3) prepare a long term probabilistic PA to support decision making and meet requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), and (4) prepare chapters and appendices for the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) as required by the SEIS Contractor. DOE and NYSERDA (the agencies) intend to conduct this work jointly, using a tripartite contract structure and sharing in oversight and cost of the work.

The mission of the DOE Environmental Management program is the safe cleanup of the environmental legacy resulting from five decades of nuclear weapons development and Government-sponsored nuclear energy research.