The Government Accountability Office last week denied a summer protest of a contract award to Eagle Harbor for management and operations of the Department of Energy’s National Training Center.
The full decision against the protest lodged by incumbent Kupono Government Services was not public as of Monday.
The award, made in 2022 to Eagle Harbor after a solicitation in 2020, has now taken around four years to complete. The successor would for 10 years run the training center, which offers among other things safety training programs for contractors and personnel serving DOE and its semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration.
In 2023, Kupono and two other small businesses protested the DOE-awarded contract to manage the Albuquerque, N.M.-based National Training Center (NTC).
A new competition for the award went up April 30, resulting in July in another award to Eagle Harbor, worth $338 million. Kupono protested the decision on July 30 and again on Aug. 16. Both protests were denied by the Government Accountability Office.
