The Energy Department expects to soon issue a request for proposals for paramilitary security services at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina.
The notice of the upcoming solicitation was posted Tuesday on the Federal Business Opportunities website. The Energy Department expects to issue the actual RFP within 15 to 60 days.
The new award will replace the contract held by incumbent Centerra-SRS, which expires early in October 2019. The vendor is nearing the end of a 10-year, $1 billion deal to protect SRS’s special nuclear material and facilities for the Office of Environmental Management (EM) and DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
In addition to protecting federal employees, contractors, and the general public, the winning vendor would also safeguard government property and sensitive information at Savannah River. Centerra-SRS employs about 700 people at the site. In mid-2017, the vendor dealt with a strike by unionized guards that lasted nearly two months.
The point of contract and contracting officer for the upcoming procurement is Matthew Carpenter, at [email protected].
A pre-solicitation briefing and industry meetings for the upcoming procurement were held in August 2017 at SRS. A recent DOE procurement schedule suggests a new contract will be awarded by January 2020, indicating Centerra-SRS could receive an extension to its current deal.
A spokeswoman for the Centerra Group subsidiary, Suzanne Piner, said earlier this year the company plans to compete for the next contract.
