Day & Zimmerman aids TVA nuclear workforce
The Tennessee Valley Authority has awarded a 7-year contract to the Philadelphia-based engineering firm of Day and ZImmerman to supply workers and temporary help during outages at TVA’s nuclear power plants.
The contract, which TVA directors approved at their quarterly board meeting in Knoxville this week, is valued at $950 million through 2023 and could be extended for an additonal three years, according to TVA Nuclear Chief Joe Grimes.
“Our goal is to drive performance, innovation and continuous improvement at a lower cost,” Grimes said. “This approach supports a variable workforce for both craft and non-craft workers to execute nuclear outage and supplemental maintance work, as needed, at all three of our nuclear sites.”
Grimes said TVA solicited bids from major nuclear enigneering and staffing agencies for outage and maintenace work and he described the bidding competition as “rigorous.”