David Haught

David Haught serves as a key procurement professional within the Environmental Management Contracting Business Center under the Department of Energy, overseeing the acquisition of critical environmental remediation services. His role centers on managing complex, science-driven contracts for the safe treatment, containment, and long-term stewardship of legacy nuclear and hazardous waste sites. He specializes in high-stakes, technically intensive procurements aligned with federal environmental compliance standards, ensuring that cleanup activities adhere to rigorous regulatory frameworks and engineered safety protocols. His acquisitions primarily support decommissioning operations, waste stream management, and site restoration efforts across the national nuclear complex. Haught maintains enduring partnerships with a small, specialized pool of contractors, most notably the West Valley Cleanup Alliance, LLC, Energy Technology Alliance LLC, and Arctic Peak LLC—entities with proven expertise in radioactive waste handling, decontamination, and facility decommissioning. These relationships reflect a preference for experienced, mission-aligned prime contractors capable of integrating multidisciplinary technical teams and delivering large-scale environmental remediation under stringent safety and regulatory constraints. His contracting patterns emphasize performance-based outcomes and long-term contract stability over frequent vendor rotation. Haught’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic focus on technical capability and operational readiness over socioeconomic preferences, prioritizing contractor expertise and proven track records in high-risk environmental remediation over socioeconomic categorizations. His primary procurement focus is exclusively on NAICS 562211—Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal—encompassing the management of radioactive, chemical, and mixed waste streams. He procures specialized services including soil and groundwater remediation, radioactive material packaging and transport, decontamination technologies, and long-term surveillance systems, demonstrating deep domain expertise in nuclear environmental cleanup and compliance with EPA and DOE Order standards.