U.S. Senator Expresses Concern Over Lack of Interest in Los Alamos Management Contract

U.S. Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) said earlier this week that he had doubts that anyone would offer a bid for the U.S. Energy Department’s contract to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory (see GSN, Feb. 11).

“With the passage of time, I began to wonder and I wonder if the DOE has been wondering, too,” Domenici said Wednesday.

Since the Energy Department announced that the contract was up for bid in 2003, there have been no announcements of firm plans to seek the contract by any company or university, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The department this week amended an earlier draft request for proposals to make the contract more attractive, including by doubling the proposed management fee, the Journal reported (Adam Rankin, Albuquerque Journal, Feb. 24). 

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