More than a year after winning the contract the first time around, a Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) affiliate is again being tapped to provide the U.S. Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) with technical support services.
The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management announced Aug. 22 that Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Enterprise Technical Assistance Services (E-TAS) had won a potential five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth almost $137 million.
The Pro2Serve company, which did not respond to a request for comment, originally won the business on June 29, 2018. But DOE withdrew the award a couple months later after rival bidder Strategic Management Solutions filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
There will be a 60-day transition period from three current contractors to Enterprise Technical Assistance Services. That will be followed by a base period of three years and option for an additional two years, according to the DOE news release.
Contract work includes technical and administrative support to DOE for remediation at the Portsmouth Site in Pike County, Ohio, and the Paducah Site in Paducah, Ky., as well as operation of the depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion (DUF6) facilities at the two former gaseous diffusion sites. The vendor will also provide technical engineering, information technology, and safeguards and security management for all PPPO sites including the headquarters office in Lexington, Ky.
Currently, support services are spread among three companies: Pro2Serve (Paducah) and RSI EnTech (Portsmouth), both based in Oak Ridge, along with Strategic Management Solutions (DUF6), which is based in based in Albuquerque, N.M.
The companies received their initial contract awards in 2013. Their latest extensions are due to expire by Sept. 30, although the Energy Department can extend them through Dec. 31.
Unsuccessful bidders on the latest consolidated contract are believed to include Strategic Management Solutions and an affiliate of Los Alamos Technical Associates. The parties are expected to receive a DOE briefing on the contract award the week after Labor Day, a source said Aug. 23.
