Leidos has acquired a larger share of Hanford Site contractor Mission Support Alliance to eliminate a conflict of interest for Jacobs Engineering Group. Leidos now owns 88 percent of the support services provider, with Centerra owning the remainder.
When Jacobs Engineering Group completed its acquisition of CH2M in December, Jacobs became the partial owner of Mission Support Alliance, the site-wide services contractor for the Energy Department facility in Washington state, and the owner of CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co., the central Hanford cleanup contractor.
The Mission Support Alliance contract prohibits the company’s owners from also owning other Hanford contractors due to potential conflicts of Interest. Mission Support Alliance provides general services across the site, such as infrastructure service, information technology, utilities, security, emergency response, and fleet and road maintenance. It also provides portfolio management services to help DOE make decisions that can affect its other contractors. Mission Support Alliance says its portfolio management service provides technical data for integrated planning to produce cost-savings, project alternatives, and realistic decision-making.
When Jacobs acquired CH2M, it gained 41 percent ownership of Mission Support Alliance, with Leidos owning 47 percent and Centerra owning 12 percent. Leidos did not respond to calls asking for information on the terms of its acquisition for Jacobs’ share of the contractor.
Mission Support Alliance has a 10-year contract valued at $3 billion that expires in May 2019. CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. has a 10-year contract valued at $4.5 billion that expires at the end of this fiscal year.
