The U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management plans to extend the current technical services contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky with Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Pro2Serve for up to six more months.
On Thursday, DOE published a notice of intent to issue a sole-source extension to keep Pro2Service on the job at Paducah through June 30, 2020, while the agency deals with a bid protest over a long-term technical services support deal for the entire Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO).
The current agreement expires by Jan. 1. The extension would be worth up to $3.5 million, should all six months be needed, according to the notice. The company has the necessary resources, programs, and people to continue providing various administrative and technical support for cleanup at Paducah, the DOE said.
While the notice is not a request for proposals, other vendors have until 4:30 p.m. Eastern time on Oct. 24 to contest the extension, providing “convincing documentation demonstrating their capabilities” to do the work, according to the notice. Documents should be sent to DOE Contracting Officer Daniel Burke, at [email protected].
For the second time in a little over a year, a Pro2Serve affiliate, Enterprise Technical Assistance Services (E-TAS), in August won a $137 million consolidated technical support contract for PPPO, only for business rival Strategic Management Solutions, of Albuquerque, N.M., to protest the award.
The Energy Department recently filed information with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) explaining its justification for the five-year award that is being challenged, Norbert Doyle, deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management at the nuclear cleanup office, said last week at an industry conference in Knoxville, Tenn.
The agency is also extending existing agreements for technical support services for Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based RSI EnTech at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and for Strategic Management Solutions at the depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion (DUF6) operations at the two former gaseous diffusion sites.
