A frequently-used Department of Energy subcontractor is dropping its lawsuit against a large contractor over business at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
Professional Project Services or Pro2Serve or filed a joint motion to dismiss April 15 with Leidos Integrated Technology and its Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) joint venture in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The “parties jointly stipulate to dismissal of this action with prejudice,” meaning the agreement is final and will not be resurrected, according to the three-page order. All parties agree to pay their own case costs and legal fees.
Attorneys for the parties listed on the document, did not immediately respond to an email inquiry Wednesday asking if a settlement was reached in the case. A Leidos spokesperson declined comment.
Pro2Serve sued it Leidos and HMIS in November, claiming it was wrongly excluded the new landlord services team at the Hanford Site. The HMIS team, which consists of Leidos, Centerra and Parsons started work last August on a new five-year, $4-billion Hanford Mission Essential Services Contract. The DOE Office of Environmental Management awarded the contract to the Leidos-led venture in December 2019.
Leidos and HMIS have said in court papers that Tennessee-based Pro2Serve was never promised a sole-source subcontract and DOE officials refused to bless such an arrangement without an open competition.
During a March presentation to the virtual Waste Management Symposia, a DOE procurement official Norbert Doyle, said some small contractors that workers for the old prime contractors at Hanford seemed taken by surprise when the agency prodded the new primes to seek competitive bids.
