The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Chief Information Officer is extending for up to six months its contract with Metrica Team Venture for information technology support services.
A Dec. 23 notice said the agency will modify the San Antonio, Texas, company’s task order for additional IT and cyber security services in a one-month base period, three one-month option periods, and one two-month option period. The total extension would end June 30, 2017, and would add $8 million to the current ceiling price of $130 million.
Metrica Team Venture provides IT technical and advisory services to the NNSA’s chief information officer at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and in Germantown, Md. The company also conducts site assessment visits to review network security plans, network configuration, risk analysis, and security practices, the notice said.
The NNSA awarded the initial five-year task order in April 2010. Since April 2015, the task order has been extended several times, most recently with a bridge contract awarded in June 2016 and ending on the last day of the year.
The bridge was intended to give the semiautonomous Department of Energy branch time to evaluate and award a follow-on task order following a bid protest in January. “The evaluation and selection process is not anticipated to last for an additional six months, but extra time is being built in as option periods to account for unanticipated delays that may arise,” the notice said.