Paramilitary security contractor Centerra won 97% or about $3.17 million out of a potential $3.26 million fee for protecting the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina during the second half of fiscal 2019, which ended Sept. 30.
That’s according to a scorecard released by DOE over the winter holidays for Centerra-Savannah River Site.
The performance of Centerra-SRS during the first half of fiscal 2019 was nearly as impressive, when it won 96% or $3.14 million out of a potential $3.26 million for the period from October 2018 – March 2019.
This time the vendor earned 96% of its potential fee for its training and protective force operations. The category includes maintaining perimeter barricades, law enforcement, and protection of sensitive national security facilities, and nuclear materials at the 310-square mile site – including the Savannah River National Laboratory.
It also scored 96% for its management and support of its protective forces including recruitment and retention of personnel. Centerra staged a force-on-force drill in order for its security people to simulate repelling intruders at the site.
The contractor won 98% of the potential fee for environment, safety, health and quality assurance. The Energy Department said Centerra effectively managed operations during the “extreme heat” of a South Carolina summer.
Finally, the vendor earned 100% for its cost controls.
Centerra-SRS has a $989 million contract that dates to October 2009. A four-month $35-million extension to the original 10-year contract was exercised by DOE in October 2019 and could expire Feb. 7. The federal agency has the option to exercise two more four-month extension that could keep the security vendor on the job into October of this year.
After publishing a solicitation for a new 10-year contract last March, the Energy Department accepting bids in May and initially hoped to award a new long-term security contract by the end of 2019. Centerra is vying to retain the business.
