After a legal battle concluded the December 2020 winner of the Infrastructure Support Services business for the Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in Kentucky too large for the small business set-aside award, the agency is doing fresh market research for a new landlord contractor.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management on Friday June 30 published a sources sought notice for small businesses interested in overseeing a wide array of support services at the 3,500-acre property in Western Kentucky that’s home to a former gaseous diffusion plant.
The notice was posted on the government’s System for Award Management website, SAM.gov.
Incumbent Swift & Staley has provided the landlord work, ranging from security to routine maintenance to snow removal, since October 2015 under a contract, which after various extensions, is valued at $396-million and won’t expire until July 2024.
Earlier this year, DOE’s formally cancelled the new contract that the Kentucky-based company won in December 2020. The move came after the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in December 2022 held Swift & Staley exceeded the small business size standards at the time the new award was made.
Virginia-based Akima, a rival bidder for the 2020 award, successfully pursued its challenge first through the Small Business Administration and later through the federal courts. The small business size limit for the new contract being contemplated by DOE is $47 million.
Response to this new request for information/sources sought, which is not an actual solicitation, are due by 3 p.m. Eastern Time on July 20.
Questions or comments can be emailed to DOE contracting officer Jose Ortiz, at [email protected].
