Vector Resources, a women owned small business, recently protested the award of a potentially $53 million technical and administrative services contract at the Y-12 National Security Site to Sigma Science.
Vector lodged two protests about the award with the Government Accountability Officer on Monday, the congressional investigator said on its website. Work under Sigma Science’s Y-12 Acquisition and Project Management Office (APMO) Technical & Administrative Support Services contract in Oak Ridge, Tenn., began on June 15, according to a federal procurement website.
The contract’s base period runs only a year, to June 14, 2023. Options could extend the deal through June 14, 2027, according to the government website. The National Nuclear security Administration (NNSA) solicited bids for the contract on Nov. 18. The work was not set aside for any particular business category or classification.
On a federal procurement website, Vector Resources lists its physical address as a historical building in Erie, Pa. — that according to a local media report included pop-up business space — and its mailing address as a strip mall in Englewood, Fla., about 80 miles south of Tampa on the Gulf coast. The company has between 51 and 200 employees, according to its LinkedIn page.
Among the federal clients listed on Vector Resources’ website are the NNSA’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C.
Sigma Science, which lists its headquarters as an office building in Albuquerque, N.M., is registered as a minority owned business, a self certified small disadvantaged business and Hispanic American owned. The company had about 90 employees and an estimated $20 million in revenue, according to its LinkedIn page.
Sigma Science’s website lists NNSA clients including Los Alamos, the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, the Savannah River Site and others. The company also has a presence at several Environmental Management sites.
