The Government Accountability Office on Tuesday denied a protest by a women owned small business seeking to overturn a $53-million award at the Y-12 National Security Complex to Sigma Science.
Vector Resources — which lists its headquarters and mailing addresses in a pop-up business space in Erie, Pa., and a strip mall in Engelwood, Fla., respectively — had lodged a pair of protests about the technical and administrative services contract in August.
The Government Accountability Office had not released its decision as of Wednesday, writing on its website that the protest was “covered by a protective order, which means that some information in the decision may require redaction before public release. A final redacted version of the decision will be posted when this process is complete.”
The award under protest was for a contract with a one-year base that ran through June 14, 2023 and that could take the deal through June 14, 2027. The National Nuclear security Administration (NNSA) solicited bids for the deal on Nov. 18. NNSA did not set the work aside for any particular business category or classification.
Vector Resources did not reply to requests for comment after it lodged the protests. The company on its website lists the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., among its federal clients. The company categorized itself on LinkedIn as a business with between 51 and 200 employees.
Sigma Science, which lists its headquarters as an office building in Albuquerque, N.M., is registered as a minority owned business, a self certified small disadvantaged business and Hispanic American owned. The company had about 90 employees and an estimated $20 million in revenue, according to its LinkedIn page.
