North Wind Dynamics is poised to start a $135-million contract in charge of Infrastructure Services at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio.
North Wind is “currently in transition” and will officially become the services contractor on Feb. 18, a company spokesperson said via email Wednesday.
A DOE contract chart updated last week shows that Portsmouth Mission Alliance, a partnership between North Wind and Swift & Staley, remains in charge of landlord services through Feb. 17 at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant complex in Piketon, Ohio.
The incumbent contract that dates back to March 2016 is currently valued at $211 million. North Wind is taking the reins after Akima Intra-Data, a Virginia-based firm, withdrew its protest to the Government Accountability Office in November.
In September, the DOE Office of Environmental Management awarded the potential five-year contract, with a base of about three years, followed by a two-year option period, to the North Wind company.
The site services contractor effectively acts as a town manager at the federal site, tackling day-to-day tasks ranging from snow removal and janitorial services to record keeping and safeguards and security.
Swift & Staley, meanwhile, is still defending its December 2020 contract win for Infrastructure Services at the Paducah Site in Kentucky in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Akima has argued in court and before the Small Business Administration that Swift & Staley exceeds the size limits for the Paducah set-aside contract.
