Attorney Sanders says U.S. DOE awards $3 Billion contract at Hanford Site to support engineering contractors working on radioactive waste cleanup.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected Mission Support Alliance, LLC (“Mission”) as the mission support contractor for DOE’s Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State. The contract is a cost-plus award-fee contract valued at approximately $3.0 billion over ten years (a five-year base period with options to extend it for up to another five years). Mission is owned by Lockheed Martin Integrated Technology, LLC; Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.; and Wackenhut Services, Inc.

Mission will provide infrastructure and several other basic site services needed by Hanford’s environmental engineering contractors during the cleanup of the polluted site. The 586-square-mile Hanford Site in Southeastern Washington State is the world’s largest and most expensive environmental cleanup project.

A wise old U.S. Senator once said, "a billion here, a billion there and soon it adds up to serious money." Well, this contract is just one of many multi-billion government deals to cleanup radioactive waste at U.S. DOE installations. I for one, believe that the final amount of money spent on this radioactive waste site will be 10 to 100 times more than this amount.