The Department of Energy is picking up its option to keep Centerra Group on through at least Oct. 7 as provider of security at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina while the agency continues to review a 10-year, $1-billion follow-on contract awarded in February to Securitas CIS.
A DOE spokesperson said in an email late last week the agency is exercising the third of three four-month options it agreed to last October to keep Centerra providing security at the site along the South Carolina-Georgia line. The second option expires June 7.
“Exercising the options allows the Department to maintain alignment with the ongoing procurement process,” the DOE spokesperson said. Centerra has held the Savannah River Paramilitary Security Contract since October 2009 under an agreement currently valued at more than $1-billion. The prior four-month extensions received by Centerra have been valued at about $35.8 million.
The DOE has yet to say if it will reaffirm the February award to the SRS Critical Infrastructure Security (SCIS) team led by Virginia-based Securitas CIS, or make a new award determination following a contract challenge filed with the Government Accountability Office by a rival bidder SOC, a Day & Zimmermann security company.
The DOE is investigating allegations, including an organizational conflict of interest, raised in the SOC protest, according to a one-page order published by the Government Accountability Office in March.
