The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management intends to issue a sole-source business deal to a firm to provide employee training on end-state contracting.
In a Monday procurement notice, the agency announced plans to hire Management Concepts Inc. (MCI) to provide the training as the nuclear cleanup office continues to overhaul its management of environmental remediation contracts.
The Office of Environmental Management has an “urgent requirement” for such training and knows of no potential alternate to MCI, according to the notice.
While the announcement is not a request for proposals, any contractor that believes it can perform the training can provide evidence of their credentials by 1 p.m. ET on May 4, to [email protected].
Management Concepts has the “expertise, knowledge, and necessary skills to develop a customized class” to train DOE employees in the end-state methodology, the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center said. The notice does not include details on the duration or value of the potential contract or how many employees will receive the training.
Tysons Corner, Va.-based Management Concepts offers more than 275 courses, many with online options, for government employees, according to its website.
Then-Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management Anne Marie White in 2018 kicked off an effort to move most new contracts to the approach that emphasizes use of indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts, with awards made based on initial task orders rather than a detailed laundry list of projects that must be completed over many years. This avoids a situation where milestones are driven by an outdated work statement drafted years before the contract award, the nuclear cleanup office has said.
The potential 10-year, $10 billion Hanford Site Central Plateau remediation contract awarded in December to a team comprised of Amentum, Fluor, and Atkins is the first major end state agreement issued by the DOE cleanup office.
