Centerra-Savannah River Site, security provider at the Department of Energy site in South Carolina, won $6.4 million or 95% of a potential $6.7 million fee for a 12-month period ended Oct.7, according to a new DOE scorecard.
“Throughout this performance period, Centerra-SRS executed the Site security mission at an excellent level of proficiency,” DOE said in the review. “Deficiencies included a few individual single point failures by PF [protective force] personnel not adhering to established procedures,” but the problems were quickly corrected, according to the two-page document.
Centerra provides an “armed and uniformed” protective force for physical security at the federal complex near Aiken, S.C. The review period of Oct. 8, 2020 through Oct. 7, 2021, represents the 12th year of the current contract.
The Centerra-SRS private law enforcement department received re-accreditation for the ninth time from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, according to the scorecard. The private police force responded to 4,100 calls and made 53 arrests. The contractor’s duties include protection of national security facilities and special nuclear materials at Savannah River.
Due to COVID -19 concerns, large-scale force-on-force exercises, which simulate an attack or intrusion into the facility, were not held. However, a smaller force-on-force exercise at the Savannah River National Laboratory was conducted.
Centerra has been on the job since October 2009 and thanks to various extensions is slated to stay in place through Oct. 7 under the agreement currently valued at a little over $1 billion.
Angela Watmore, a procurement executive with the DOE Office of Environmental Management, said in October the office is not yet ready to name a long-term security contractor at Savannah River. The change of course comes after DOE twice affirmed a 10-year, $1-billion replacement contract to SRS Critical Infrastructure Security, a group led by Securitas CIS.
