SYSTEMATIC MANAGEMENT SERVICES PROTESTS NNSA TECHNICAL SERVICES TASK AWARD

A team led by Systematic Management Services is protesting a task order award to MELE Associates’ MAX3 Team under the NNSA’s technical services blanket purchase agreement. MELE was awarded a $2.3 million task order to provide support to the NNSA’s Office of Enterprise Project Management under the contract Aug. 14. Brian Gocial, a lawyer representing the SMS team, declined to comment yesterday on the grounds for the protest, but SMS is believed to have argued in its protest that the NNSA misevaluated its proposal and didn’t do an adequate best-value tradeoff analysis. Under the three-year contract, MELE is expected to “assess NNSA documents, manuals, procedures, and project development” and provide “subject matter expertise and aid with project development” while providing staff for technical review teams, evaluate scope, cost and risk, and prepare drafts of review reports. Along with MELE and Navarro Research and Engineering, SMS had been short-listed in a previous task order for support of the Office of Enterprise Project Management, but when the NNSA recompeted the task order, it chose to award the contract to only one team.