A panoply of biddersengineer-contractors, R&D firms and universitiesare eyeing a potential multi-billion-dollar, 10-year contract to manage what the U.S. Dept. of Energy envisions as the premier federal facility for nuclear energy research and security at its former weapons complex near Idaho Falls.
Bids are due next month to manage what will be renamed the Idaho National Laboratory, which will include the Argonne National Laboratory-West and other units of the current Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.