The Louisiana Army National Guard says it has received 10 bids to destroy 7,500 tons of M6 artillery propellant at Camp Minden.
In an email Thursday, Col. Pete Schneider, LANG spokesperson says the following companies submitted written competitive quotes:
Leidos
Aegis Environ UXO, Inc.
Timberline Environmental
Clean Harbors Environmental
General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems
Archtech, Inc.
Kemron Environmental Services
Expal
Explosive Services International and
CH2M Hill
Schneider said Thursday that the guard isn’t releasing any details about their bids regarding which technology was proposed in each.
“In accordance with the contract office, we’re not going to release actual technologies that each one of the vendors bid on,” he said, “because once the committee is formed, they’re going to sit down and evaluate all those technologies. And some of them may not fit into the actual ones the dialogue committee came up with or the EPA came up with.”
He says an evaluation team is being formed, and the guard will identify agencies and people on the team. It will include two members of the “dialogue committee” formed to evaluate processes after protests by area residents got the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to say methods other than open burning could be considered. Those members are Wilma Subra, scientist and owner of Subra Company, and Dr. Slawomir Lomnicki, of LSU Superfund Research Center and Department of Environmental Services.
He says Subra will participate in the actual evaluation of the contracts.
Last year, EPA said burning in shallow trays was the only method that could be used quickly enough to destroy the propellant before it became dangerously explosive.
It said Wednesday that the guard may consider other methods.
In an interview Thursday, Schneider says he does not know if any of the bids contain open tray burn, but when they (LANG) went out for bids, they asked companies to bid on alternate methods.
“When (Maj.) Gen. (Glenn) Curtis appeared at the meeting up there (at Camp Minden in January), he said at the same time this committee was getting together, we went out for proposals for bids from companies to submit an alternative form of destruction,” he said.
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an evaluation team “is being formed” ? What has the Guard been doing this whole time that the committee has been doing the hard work of citizenship? Why all the secrecy around a bid for a public project?
“not releasing the companies names or any details about their bids” They all must have bid for ‘Open Burn’ SMH #stoptheburn
Yea Stuckey said before they would go ahead and take bids, to be ready.
If that was true last year….what changed?
Excellent reporting by the Minden Press Herald! Thanks for the news.
I recognize some of these.
Please read respectfully and thoughtfully. The prefix for ranks in parenthesis at the end of the article bug me. Perhaps I have just spent too much time as a military spouse. It is either MAJ. GEN., Major General or simply General. Same goes for the option of using MAJ. GEN. Glenn Curtis first name or not. Although, it is never incorrect for rank to spelled out in full but when abreviated use all CAPS. Parenthesis are used to show insignificance for something that the writer wants to informn or include in the writing. Rank is earned and to be highly respected. So the respective should have left them out the parenthesis.
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