An Alaska native corporation, Tuknik Government Services, won a $15-million Department of Energy contract for technical support work for the environmental business center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
DOE’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) announced the five-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite quantity contract for information systems technical support Tuesday. The new contractor is scheduled to start Nov. 1, DOE said.
Tuknik, a subsidiary of Koniag Government Services, is a section 8 (a) firm certified as socially or economically disadvantaged by the Small Business Administration. The firm has an office in Northern Virginia and has done work for the Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, the Department of Defense and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to the Tuknik website.
Work under the new contract will include general desktop and server management, network infrastructure design and operations, and cyber security.
The business center’s information systems technical support is currently being provided by Ardent Technologies under a contract awarded in October 2017.
Lynchburg, Va.-based BWX Technologies will discuss its financial results for third quarter, ended Sept. 30, during a 9 a.m. Monday conference call with Wall Street analysts.
During the second quarter, BWXT reported net income was up $5 million to about $64 million, or $0.67 per share, from about $59 million, or $0.62 per share, a year earlier.
In addition to being a major contractor for the Department of Energy’s weapons complex, BWXT also manufactures nuclear reactor components and fuel for U.S. Navy submarines and warships and performs services for commercial nuclear power plants.
The steady Navy work and other government contracts have helped blunt the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the company’s financial health, BWX Technologies President and CEO Rex Geveden said during the second quarter call.
During Monday’s call, financial analysts might quiz Geveden about the status of the $13-billion tank closure contract which a BWXT-led team, Hanford Works Restoration, was awarded in May. The Department of Energy put the contract award on hold following a bid protest filed with the Government Accountability Office, and Geveden said last quarter that he expects no revenue from the deal this year.
The Virginia-based company is the junior partner in a number of joint-venture contractors for the DOE Environmental Management Office, including: the prime contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Protect in New Mexico; the decontamination and decommissioning contract for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio; and the cleanup contract for the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York.
