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 protest after the department indicated it would take corrective action on the procurement, including the re-evaluation of competing bids.
DoE officials said the re-evaluation of bids involved DoE’s assessment of the relative costs of the two competing bids. They also said the Lockheed Martin-Jacobs-Wackenhut team was initially selected by DoE last year, and then chosen again after the re-evaluation.
The mission support deal is the last of three new contracts recently handed out by the department in a major restructuring of its programs at Hanford. The other two contracts were for management and disposal of liquid high-level wastes at the site and for soil and groundwater cleanup and decommissioning and decontamination of old nuclear weapons production facilities.
Winning the mission support contact was the Mission Support Alliance LLC, a company formed by Lockheed Martin, Jacobs and Wackenhut. Subcontractors on the team include Abadan, Akima Facilities Management, Dade Moeller & Associates, HPM, Longenecker and Associates, Protection Strategies, R. J. Lee Group, Vivid Learning Systems, Westech International, TestAmerica, and Lampson International.
The consortium is getting a five-year base contract and DoE has the option to extend it for another five years, depending on the consortium’s performance.
The consortium will provide safety, security and environmental services; site infrastructure and utilities maintenance; financial and business management services; and information resources and data management.