Leidos-led Mission Support Alliance (MSA) appears set to remain in place another six months, through May 25, 2020, as the support services contractor at the U.S. Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state.
The department’s Office of Environmental Management cited the timeline in an email sent Monday to employees at the Hanford Site. The current six-month contract extension expires on Nov. 25, according to the message obtained by Weapons Complex Morning Briefing.
A formal notice of intent on the proposed contract extension will be posted on the FedBizOpps website prior to expiration of the existing extension, DOE said.
The proposed extension will allow Hanford site services, which support the cleanup operations provided by the other Hanford vendors, to continue uninterrupted while DOE completes the follow-on procurement, according to the email.
The Office of Environmental Management hopes to issue the potential 10-year, $6 billion support services contract before May 2020.
The landlord- type contract covers site-wide services including road maintenance, emergency response, and management of the HAMMER Federal Training Center. The business has been worth $4.3 billion to MSA since May 2009, including the most recent extension.
Mission Support Alliance partners Leidos and Centerra have confirmed they are part of a new joint venture that could include other partners, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, to bid on a new contract. Bids were due in late November 2018.
The Energy Department told Congress last month it was about to issue a new mission support contract at Hanford, apparently to a team that includes current MSA members, according to three Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee. The award notification was quickly withdrawn, however, according to the senators who raised questions about the award in light of the Justice Department fraud lawsuit against MSA and its former team leader, Lockheed Martin.
A motions hearing in the Justice Department litigation against Hanford Mission Alliance was held Tuesday federal court in Spokane, Wash.
