DOE ISSUES ANOTHER OAK RIDGE PRO FORCE AMENDMENT

The Department of Energy has released another amendment to its scaled down Oak Ridge protective force contract, making more minor adjustments to the Request for Proposals but maintaining the Oct. 19 due date for bids. In response to questions from industry, the agency clarified how bidders should treat overtime and doubletime when preparing proposals as well as making several other minor changes to proposal preparation guidelines. Those changes, however, don’t substantially change the RFP, which is why the agency did not adjust the due date for proposals. The contract was initially expected to include protective force work at the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex Plant in addition to other DOE security work in Oak Ridge, but NNSA protective force work was stripped from the contract after the July 28 security breach at Y-12.