Mission Support Alliance (MSA), the support services provider for the Hanford Site in Washington state, has dropped a contract dispute complaint against the Department of Energy.
The chair of the U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals on June 19 dismissed MSA’s case against the Energy Department with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled at a later date. The dismissal was based on a joint motion filed the day before by both parties, according to Judge Jeri Somers.
At deadline Friday, no additional details had been made public regarding the dispute and its potential resolution. The Energy Department did not respond to a request for comment by press time. Mission Support Alliance declined comment.
The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals was formed under the fiscal 2006 National Defense Authorization Act to rule on disputes between civilian federal agencies and their contractors.
Mission Support Alliance and its customer have gone before the board on at least one prior occasion.
In November 2016, a three-judge panel ruled against MSA’s petition that more than $1.3 million in insurance costs under the federal SAFETY Act be ruled an allowable charge to its contract with the Energy Department.
Mission Support Alliance is a joint venture of Leidos and Centerra Group. It provides emergency response, cybersecurity, utility, and other “landlord” services for the 586-square-mile DOE property near Richland, Wash. The Energy Department could within the next couple months announce the follow-on award to MSA’s current $4.3 billion deal.
