Companies bidding on the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge protective force contract will have an extra week to put together proposals thanks to an amendment issued yesterday that moves the due date for bids to Oct. 19. The amendment makes minor changes to the Request for Proposals, which was overhauled earlier this month to strip out security work at the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex Plant in the wake of a security breach at Y-12. The amendment tweaks wording on employee pay and benefits, indicating that contractors must “carry over the length of service credit accrued” at the start of the contract. DOE also clarified that oral presentations would be held between Oct. 25 and Nov. 9, and made changes to its declaration of government furnished property and information it is seeking on security, environment, safety, health, and quality assurance performance.