The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has received two protests to a potential $1 billion support services contract announced earlier this month by the Energy Department’s Office of Legacy Management to environmental services firm RSI EnTech.
The Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based company’s five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract was announced April 1, following its award in March. The small business set-aside deal, from 2020 through 2025, would have a minimum value of $500,000 but a maximum value of $1 billion, depending how many tasks are ordered.
Navarro Research and Engineering, which has held the contract for the past five years, filed a bid protest on March 23. The LATA-Atkins Technical Services joint venture protested the new deal on the same date. Both cases should be decided by July 1. There is no information on the nature of the protests on the GAO website.
The contract awarded to RSI EnTech replaces a five-year, $366 million contract, DOE noted in a press release. In its own release, RSI identified its integrated subcontractors as Amentum and TFE. “Winning this contract builds on RSI’s history of support to DOE in safely and effectively addressing the legacy of the Cold War,” RSI President Steve Selecman said in the release.
The new agreement supports the Office of Legacy Management (LM) mission to fulfill post-closure responsibilities at 100 locations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, including former DOE Office of Environmental Management nuclear sites such as Fernald in Ohio and Rocky Flats in Colorado.
Legacy Management provides long-term surveillance and maintenance of federal properties once environmental remediation is complete. Its work also covers properties remediated under the U.S Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) – in fact, the Trump administration hopes to transfer management of the program from the Army Corps to Legacy Management.
Work under the RSI EnTech contract covers routine inspections of various types of containment systems, maintaining soil and groundwater treatment systems, evaluating new technology, and communicating with the public and regulators. The contract also includes managing property and facilities.
The primary locations of performance will be: Grand Junction and Westminster, Colo.; Morgantown, W.Va.; Monticello, Utah; Pinellas, Fla.; Tuba City, Ariz.; Weldon Spring, Mo.; Fernald and Mound, Ohio; and Washington, D.C.
