Mike Nartker
GHG Monitor
10/18/13

A team led by AECOM has filed a challenge over the Department of Energy’s recent award of the new Strategic Petroleum Reserve management contract to Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations. The AECOM protest is the second filed with the Government Accountability Office over the SPR award, with DM Petroleum Operations Company (made up of Jacobs and International Matex Tank and Terminal) having filed a protest of its own at the end of September. DOE did not respond to requests for comment this week. An AECOM spokesperson declined to comment.

Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations, which includes MRIGlobal, Booz Allen Hamilton and ASRC Petroleum Operations and Maintenance as major subcontractors, beat out four other teams for the new SPR contract, valued at $1.46 billion over 10 years. The other unsuccessful bidders for the contract included teams of URS-Parsons Brinkerhoff; and CB&I-Loop. The URS team does not plan to file a protest, a company spokesman said late this week. CB&I did not return calls for comment.