The Department of Energy is extending Swift & Staley as site services contractor at the Paducah Site in Kentucky through July 2024, the agency said in a procurement notice this week.
The move is meant to buy the DOE Office of Environmental Management time to recompete a contract agreement for the landlord services award made in December 2020 and recently canceled by the agency.
The extension will run from April 1, 2023 through July 31, 2024, according to the notice and justification documents posted Monday on the procurement website, sam.gov. The 16-month extension could be worth up to $60 million, according to DOE.
Swift & Staley had secured a follow-on contract for the Paducah work, but rival bidder Akima protested the award on the basis that the incumbent was too large to qualify for the small-business set-aside. The Small Business Administration and, eventually, the Court of Federal Claims and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, agreed.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against Swift & Staley’s appeal on Dec. 12, 2022.
Without the extension, Swift & Staley’s incumbent contract, now valued at $336 million, would have expired Friday March 31. Swift & Staley started the incumbent contract back in October 2015.
The now-canceled follow-on was worth $160-million over five-years. DOE awarded the contract in December 2020.
