JACOBS/FLUOR TEAM WON’T PROTEST LATEST Y-12/PANTEX AWARD

There will be only one team protesting the National Nuclear Security Administration’s latest Y-12/Pantex award after a Jacobs/Fluor team yesterday decided against challenging the agency’s latest selection. The Jacobs/Fluor team, known as Integrated Nuclear Production Solutions, initially joined a B&W-led team in protesting the NNSA’s selection of Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security in January, but after the GAO upheld that protest, the Jacobs/Fluor team shied did not challenge the agency’s corrective actions along with B&W-led Nuclear Production Partners (NP2). The NNSA reaffirmed its selection of CNS Nov. 1. “While we didn’t agree with some of the individual conclusions that the Source Evaluation Board or the Source Selection Authority came to, we decided not to move forward with an additional protest,” Greg Meyer, Fluor’s Senior Vice President for Environmental and Nuclear Operations, told NW&M Monitor yesterday.

INPS had until yesterday to protest the contract under federal regulations, though if the NNSA were to take corrective actions as a result of the B&W team’s latest protest, the Jacobs/Fluor team would still be part of the procurement. “We’re not dropping; if the GAO were to uphold all or part of the NP2 protest, any corrective action would still be applicable to us,” Meyer said. The GAO has until Feb. 28 to decide the latest NP2 protest.