New Mexico-based Strategic Management Solutions filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Monday over a contract worth up to $137 million to provide technical support services for the Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management issued the award on Aug. 22 to Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Enterprise Technical Assistance Services (E-TAS), a subsidiary of Pro2Serve. The GAO must make a decision on the bid protest by Dec. 18.
Strategic Management Solutions previously filed a protest with the GAO in summer 2018 after E-TAS was initially awarded the business. The Energy Department subsequently withdrew that award in August 2018.
The follow-on award to the same vendor is a consolidated technical support services contract for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, the Paducah Site in Kentucky, and depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion (DUF6) facilities at the two former gaseous diffusion plants. It is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract.
The technical support business for those three operations is currently split between Strategic Management Solutions, Pro2Serve, and RSI EnTech. There will be a 60-day transition period from three current contractors to Enterprise Technical Assistance Services.
The contract covers technical engineering, information technology, and safeguards and security management for all PPPO sites including the Lexington, Ky., headquarters office.
Strategic Management Solutions and other bidders apparently received a debriefing on the contract award on Sept. 5. The bid protest notice on the GAO website does not include any detail on the basis of the protest.
