The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management is picking up North Wind-led Portsmouth Mission Alliance’s (PMA) 22-month contract option for infrastructure support services at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio.
The department on Tuesday announced the extension, valued at an estimated $67 million, one day before the three-year base contract with the North Wind-Swift & Staley venture would expire.
With DOE picking up the only option period, the incumbent vendor will stay on the job through Feb. 24, 2021. The total estimated value of the full five-year contract is $159 million.
The DOE nuclear cleanup office is interested in a new consolidated contract for infrastructure support services at both the Portsmouth Site and the Paducah Site in Kentucky, which are homes to retired gaseous diffusion plants. The office issued a request for information notice to that end in February.
The Energy Department, however, has not said when it might issue a draft request for proposals on a combination contract.
Kentucky-based Swift & Staley in December was awarded an $88 million, 22-month contract extension to continue providing infrastructure support services at Paducah. That is part of a contract the company started working in December 2015, which is valued at about $193 million.
Representatives of North Wind, and Swift & Staley could not immediately be reached for comment. A senior executive with another company said the sheer dollar value of a consolidated contract, which should be well above $300 million, could draw interest from around the contractor complex – depending what corporate size standards the Energy Department elects to use for the procurement.
Infrastructure support services at Portsmouth include a long list of chores, including maintenance and repair of facilities; surveillance; janitorial work; grounds upkeep; roadway/parking lot maintenance; pest control; telecommunication; fleet management; document control; and safeguards and security. Similar infrastructure service tasks are required at Paducah.
