The Department of Energy could roll out a draft solicitation by Dec. 31 for a small business to provide technical support services at the Paducah Site in Kentucky and the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, the agency said Wednesday.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management could publish a draft request for proposals (RFP) sometime within 15-to-45 days, according to an online procurement notice.
This is a key step in the process to find a successor contract to the one currently held by Enterprise Technical Assistance Services, according to materials accompanying the notice posted in the online System for Award Management (SAM.gov). Enterprise Technical Assistance Services is part of Professional Project Services, commonly known within the weapons complex as Pro2Serve.
The Environmental Management business center published a request for information in July.
The incumbent has a $179-million contract that started in March 2023 and is scheduled to run through March 2025, according to the latest DOE contract chart.
“DOE intends to conduct a virtual pre-solicitation conference for this procurement,” according to the procurement notice. “Interested parties are encouraged to review the draft RFP prior to the virtual pre-solicitation conference. At this time, DOE has tentatively scheduled the virtual pre-solicitation conference to be held in early January 2024, with industry feedback on the draft RFP due thereafter.”
The contractor eventually selected will provide the Portsmouth-Paducah Project Office with technical and administrative support on oversight for several prime contracts — the cleanup and infrastructure support contracts for each of the gaseous diffusion plant sites as well as the combined depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion operations support contract.
