Mike Nartker
WC Monitor
9/26/2014
A team led by Navarro Research and Engineering has won the National Nuclear Security Administration’s new contract to provide environmental program services at the Nevada National Security Site. The award was first reported by WC Monitor, with the NNSA subsequently making an official announcement late this week. The new contract was set aside for small businesses, and is estimated to be worth $59 million for performance over a one-year base period with four one-year option periods. Work to be performed under the new contract will include 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.
Navarro, whose team includes Leidos and HydroGeoLogic, beat out four other bidders for the new contract, according to the NNSA. “The focus of the award selection was on the solicitation’s emphasis on the importance of the evaluation criteria over probable cost, although the Government would not make an award at a cost premium it considers disproportionate to the benefits associated with the evaluated superiority of one Offeror’s technical proposal over another. Navarro was selected as the contractor whose proposal represents the best value to the Government in terms of technical merit and price considering the evaluation criteria in the solicitation,” Darwin Morgan, a spokesman for the NNSA Nevada Field Office, said in a written response late this week.
Notably, Navarro had been part of the incumbent NNSS environmental program services contractor, Navarro-INTERA, Inc., whose contract is set to come to an end Sept. 30. For the new contract, though, INTERA chose to lead its own separate bid. “Navarro is honored that we have been selected and we look forward to providing these services to Nevada. It is a pleasure working at this site,” Navarro President Susana Navarro-Valenti said in a written response. In a separate response, INTERA President and CEO Marsh Lavenue said, “INTERA looks forward to our debriefing to gain a better understanding of the award decision.”
