A New Mexico company on Friday filed a formal protest against the Department of Energy’s recent award of a contract worth up to $137 million over five years for technical support services at the office that oversees cleanup of the Paducah Site in Kentucky and Portsmouth Site in Ohio.
In its docket notice for the protest from Strategic Management Solutions, the Government Accountability Office said only that it would issue a decision by Oct. 29.
There were seven proposals for the contract for the DOE Office of Environmental Management Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office, covering technical engineering, information technology infrastructure, and other operations. In June, the department awarded the contract to Enterprise Technical Assistance Services (E-TAS), a subsidiary of Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve).
The new contract replaces services carried out under three separate contracts that are scheduled to expire on Sept. 30. Strategic Management Solutions holds one of those awards, valued at $45 million. The Albuquerque, N.M.-based project management specialist does work at a number of DOE sites around the country.
Further information about the protest was not immediately available. Strategic Management Solutions did not respond to a request for comment, while the Office of Environmental Management said it does not comment on active procurements.
The GAO has up to 30 days to issue its report outlining the arguments made in the protest and up to 100 days to release its decision. If it finds the federal agency “violated a procurement law or regulation in a prejudicial manner, the congressional auditor would sustain the protest and urge a corrective to the error. That could include redoing the procurement to some degree.
