The incumbent contractor at the Nevada National Security Site is the second failed bidder to file a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the new management and operations contract at the site.
Nuclear Security & Technology, LLC, a variation on current prime National Security Technologies – a partnership between Northrop Grumman, AECOM, CH2M Hill, and BWX Technologies – filed its protest on June 5.
Nevada Site Science Support and Technologies Corp. (NVS3T), a partnership between Leidos, Fluor Federal Services, and Longenecker & Associates, was the first to file its own bid protest on May 31.
The NNSA last August awarded NVS3T the contract, worth $5 billion over 10 years with all options, but revoked it within days after learning the company had changed hands from parent Lockheed Martin to Leidos. The agency then reconsidered the five original bids, which were from NVS3T; Mission Support and Test Services LLC (MSTS); Nuclear Security & Technology; a BWX Technologies-led team; and a Bechtel-led team.
Last month NNSA awarded for the second time the M&O contract to MSTS, a partnership of Honeywell International, Jacobs Engineering Group, and Stoller Newport News Nuclear. An industry source previously told NS&D Monitor that the incumbent contractor would likely file a bid protest, since this would extend the contractor’s tenure at the site until the matter is resolved.
The GAO’s ruling on the latest protest is due by September 13; its decision on NVS3T’s protest is due September 8.
The 1,360-square-mile Nevada site supports NNSA’s stockpile stewardship, nonproliferation, counterterrorism, and other operations.
