The Government Accountability Office Tuesday denied a bid protest challenging the Department of Energy’s award of a new security contract to Centerra at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
While a redacted version of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) opinion likely won’t be available for several days, the federal watchdog posted a notice on its website Tuesday saying the protest brought by SRS Critical Infrastructure Security has been denied.
SRS Critical Infrastructure Security, which at one point looked like it would take over the business, filed its bid protest in late January.
The new contract for incumbent Centerra was announced in January by DOE and is potentially worth over $1 billion over a decade. Centerra has held the security business, to protect people, facilities, secrets and special nuclear material, since October 2009. SRS Critical Infrastructure Security, a contractor team led by Securitas CIS, based in Herndon, Va.
In February 2021, SRS Critical Infrastructure Security wrested the business away from Centerra but the victory was later undone following bid protests.
