UCOR recognized six small businesses at an awards event this morning for their critical support to our cleanup mission.
Since UCOR began its current contract with OREM in 2022, it has far exceeded DOE’s goal of awarding 45% of subcontracting work to small businesses. In the past 3 years, UCOR has awarded 85% of its work, totaling $770 million, to small businesses.
Each award recipient has contributed to OREM’s cleanup mission by providing outstanding customer service and exceptional responsiveness.
The businesses being recognized were:
- Aleut Demolition Services, LLC (Aleut): The Oak Ridge, Tennessee-based Aleut Demolition Services specializes in site preparation and secure construction services, including radioactive and hazardous structures. Aleut Demolition Services contributed greatly to the Alpha-2 utility reroute project at Y-12. Aleut’s efforts to respond to challenges saved months and millions of dollars for the project.
- Capitol Museum Services (CMS): CMS, a Manassas, Virginia-based company, specializes in creating custom interpretive exhibits in various fields, including history, science, anthropology, natural sciences, sports, and children’s discovery. UCOR awarded a subcontract to CMS to provide fabrication and installation of displays at the K-25 Interpretive Center, a facility that overlooks the footprint of the former K-25 gaseous diffusion building. CMS has been integral to the fabrication and installation of the K-25 interpretive center by delivering products that consistently met or exceeded UCOR’s expectations.
- Oliver Springs Portable Toilets LLC (OSP): Oliver Springs Portable Toilets, based in Oliver Springs, Tennessee, specializes in equipment rentals. OSP provides UCOR with portable toilets and services them for all UCOR projects. After a severe weather incident over a weekend, an emergency pump service was needed on a preexisting broken sewage pump at the Oak Ridge Reservation Landfills. OSP delivered their services in a swift and timely manner. OSP’s incredible customer service helped minimize damages and prevented the release of sewage water.
- RSI Entech LLC: Oak Ridge-based RSI led numerous processes and expedited sampling activities in a timely manner to ensure soil remediation at ETTP was completed on schedule. The company was also instrumental in receiving approval for the first two groundwater Records of Decision for the site. Prior to the soil remediation work, RSI’s sampling and characterization work was key to UCOR completing the first-ever cleanup of a gaseous diffusion complex. RSI also contributed to innovative water management practices at the Environmental Management Waste Management Facility (EMWMF), an on-site disposal complex that receives Oak Ridge Reservation cleanup waste.
- Street Legal Industries, Inc (Street Legal): Street Legal, based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, specializes in construction management, engineering solutions, environmental compliance, safety assurance, IT integration, records management, and strategic communications services. Street Legal provided services for the infrastructure of trailers at EMWMF. Despite challenges with trailer pad construction and delivery, Street Legal worked 12-hour days to complete the trailer pad on schedule, preventing project delays.
- Turnkey Technical Services LLC (Turnkey): Turnkey, based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, specializes in project management, business services, technical support, engineering, design, surveillance and maintenance, waste management, logistics, hazardous material, and waste packaging. Turnkey’s quick turnout and availability provided UCOR with over 30 trucks and drivers to haul clean soil at the under-construction Environmental Management Disposal Facility, resulting in an acceleration of the clean fill hauling. It also allowed UCOR to meet the critical schedule for completion of the early site preparation for this new waste disposal facility on the Oak Ridge Reservation.
