Although RSI EnTech did not win a recently announced successor contract for technical support services at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio, company President Paul Clay thinks the 97 percent rating on a new performance scorecard demonstrates the firm’s caliber of work.
RSI EnTech’s current $51 million, five-year contract at Portsmouth expires at the end of September. That contract, and two similar awards held by two other companies, are being superseded by a new combined $137 million contract covering the entire Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office complex. The holder of that contract is a Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) subsidiary, Enterprise Technical Assistance Services (E-TAS).
RSI was one of the bidders on the combined contract, which includes technical and administrative support, technical engineering duties, information technology infrastructure, and other services at all three PPPO sites, Portsmouth, the Paducah Site in Kentucky and the Lexington, Ky. Offices.
“We have not received our debriefing yet from DOE,” Clay said by telephone Thursday. Any decision on a potential bid protest would come after the debriefing, he noted.
Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based RSI, formerly Restoration Services, is actively looking elsewhere in the DOE complex for business opportunities to replace the Portsmouth contract.
At Portsmouth, RSI provides a range of environmental, engineering, technical, and administrative support. The firm’s tasks include planning, scheduling, evaluating, monitoring, special projects, and other efforts to support the environmental mission at the site.
RSI EnTech took home just over $429,000, or 97 percent, of a potential award of nearly $443,000 for the period that ended Sept. 30, 2017.
“It means a lot that DOE recognizes the quality of the performance of the staff,” Clay said. “We are proud of the work they do for the department.” RSI EnTech has about 50 staff members detailed to technical support services at Portsmouth, he added.
The DOE scorecard noted that the company went more than 3,000 days without a lost time accident. Prior to its current contract, RSI had landed a five-year Portsmouth technical services contract in 2008.
For fiscal 2017, DOE scored RSI EnTech as “excellent” in three of four performance categories – administrative support, environmental safety and health, and program management. It was “very good” in the other category, project support.
“RSI has provided excellent support throughout the fiscal year and has met contract requirements and exceeded almost all the performance goals and objectives for the period” DOE said. RSI also won praise for providing “critical” help to decommissioning and demolition contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth in preparation for DOE and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inspections, according to the scorecard.
In addition to its work at Portsmouth, RSI is a subcontractor to URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) on the East Tennessee Technology Park cleanup project at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee. It provides services including environmental, and waste characterization.
RSI is also a subcontractor to the North Wind Group’s support services contract at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York, Clay said.
RSI EnTech is a subsidiary of ASRC Industrial Services.
