Another small business protested the Department of Energy’s award of a new contract to manage the agency’s National Training Center in Albuquerque.
Chenega Reliable Services, a San Antonio, Texas-based small business subsidiary of Chenega Corp., Anchorage, Alaska, lodged the protest with the Government Accountability Office on Feb. 3.
Chenega is the second of two losing bidders to protest the award of the $340-million operations and maintenance contract to Eagle Harbor, Manassas, Va. Akima Systems Engineering was first on the draw, filing a protest on Jan. 17, about a month after DOE awarded the deal.
Akima has aggressively pursued other DOE business of this size and scope in recent years, in one case touching off a years-long legal battle over whether a rival was too large for a small business set-aside contract it won from the agency’s Office of Environmental Management.
DOE’s National Training Center provides, among other things, security and safety training for nuclear-industry professionals at DOE at its semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
The Government Accountability Office typically does not make the details of a protest public until after it has ruled on the protest. As of Tuesday afternoon, the office had rendered no decisions.
