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DoE Awards Disputed Hanford Contract

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Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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The Energy Department said Tuesday it has awarded a 10-year, $3 billion contract to a consortium led byLockheed Martin [LMT], Jacobs Engineering and Wackenhut to provide mission support services for the massive nuclear cleanup operations under way at the department's heavily contaminated Hanford site in eastern Washington. The award follows a protest by the losing bidder--a consortium led by Computer Sciences Corp. [CSC] and Battelle--that was dismissed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in December. However, GAO only dismissed the…

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