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Final Bids in On LANL Contract, UC Says

Monday, April 23rd, 2018

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The University of California submitted its best and final offer to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory for the next decade, a spokesperson for the institution said Friday.“It’s my understanding that all teams have submitted their final bids at this time,” the spokesperson wrote in an email to sister publication Weapons Complex Morning Briefing.The University of California managed the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) solo for most of the nuclear-weapon lab’s 70-plus years until 2006, when it became the lead…

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