Portage Protest Still Pending
Mike Nartker
WC Monitor
12/5/2014
INTERA has dropped its pending challenges against Navarro Research and Engineering’s win of the new Nevada National Security Site environmental programs services contract. INTERA had filed a protest over Navarro’s win with the Government Accountability Office, and was in the midst of appealing a determination by the Small Business Administration that Navarro met the size standard used in the procurement for the new contract. “As a growing small business, INTERA would have been thrilled to win the EPS contract. After reviewing the information our counsel could provide to us, we determined that the best business decision for INTERA was to move forward and focus on other business opportunities. We have enjoyed being part of the NNSS program over the last decade,” INTERA President and CEO Marsh Lavenue said in a written response this week. Navarro declined to comment.
While INTERA has dropped its challenges, Navarro’s win still faces opposition from Portage, which also has a pending protest with the GAO. A decision on Portage’s protest is currently expected by early March.
INTERA had been teamed with Navarro on the previous NNSS environmental program services contract, but chose to lead its own bid for the recompete. In late September, the NNSA announced that the Navarro-led team, which also includes Leidos and HydroGeoLogic , had won the new contract, valued at $59 million for performance over a one-year base period with four one-year option periods. Work to be performed under the new contract includes environmental characterization and remediation services at corrective action units at the Nevada National Security Site and parts of the Nevada Test and Training Range, including Tonopah Test Range, and radioactive waste acceptance services at generator sites across the country.
