Y-12 updates the business community

  • Posted: Monday, December 5, 2016, 12:58 pm

UPF Procurement and Engineering presented at an informational forum for potential vendors on Oct. 13 in Knoxville following the Energy, Technology and Environmental Business Association conference.UPF Procurement and Engineering presented at an informational forum for potential vendors on Oct. 13 in Knoxville following the Energy, Technology and Environmental Business Association conference.

Y-12 bookended this year’s Energy, Technology and Environmental Business Association (ETEBA) conference at the Knoxville Convention Center. From the ceremonial ribbon cutting at the kick off to a post-conference forum, Y-12 officials interacted with the local business community.

CNS Vice President and Y-12 Site Manager Bill Tindal helped open the three-day conference. During the conference, Cindy Morgan, CNS’s senior supply chain manager, participated on a panel to help educate local and small businesses on Y-12 subcontracting opportunities. CNS Infrastructure Programs Director Steve Laggis spoke separately about risk reduction efforts at Y-12’s legacy facilities. Laggis shared progress on projects to protect existing facilities until large-scale decontamination and decommissioning efforts can begin, which includes recent progress to reseal the roofs on three buildings with a commercial foam roofing material.

Following the conference, personnel from the Uranium Processing Facility project spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at an informational forum for potential vendors in Knoxville. More than 300 business representatives hoping to do business with UPF attended the forum.

After a presentation from UPF Procurement Director Rich Brown and a question-and-answer period, potential vendors had an opportunity to speak with procurement and engineering representatives about upcoming bid packages and the pre-qualification and registration processes.

UPF procurement will kick into overdrive during the next couple of years, with the majority of purchases for the project made between 2017 and 2019.