Tennessee-based RSI EnTech said Monday it would not follow a competitor’s lead in protesting the Energy Department’s recent $137 million consolidated contract award for technical support services for the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office complex.
“Yes, we received a debrief [on the contract award]; no, we did not/are not filing a protest,” RSI EnTech President Paul Clay said in a Monday email reply to a reporter’s inquiry. He did not elaborate on the decision not to contest the matter to the Government Accountability Office.
The technical support contract – which covers DOE’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio, Paducah Site in Kentucky, and their shared cleanup operations office in Lexington, Ky., was awarded on June 28 to a Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) subsidiary, Enterprise Technical Assistance Services (E-TAS). That covers technical and administrative support, information technology infrastructure, technical engineering, and other services.
New Mexico-based Strategic Management Solutions filed a bid protest with the GAO on July 20. Details of its justification have not yet been made public. Strategic Management Solutions spokesman David O’Flynn declined comment Monday by email. The GAO expects to rule on the protest by Oct. 29.
The newly awarded contract replaces three separate deals, all due to expire on Sept. 30, held by RSI (worth $51 million), Pro2Serve ($45 million), and Strategic Management Solutions ($45 million). The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management selected the winning bid from among seven proposals.
RSI EnTech, which provides technical support at the Portsmouth Site, garnered 97 percent of the available fee under its existing contract during the 2017 fiscal year.
