The Department of Energy plans to extend Swift & Staley’s infrastructure services contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky for up to a year after a protest derailed plans to award the company a follow-on contract.
The DOE’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office intends to issue a noncompetitive modification to the current contract that would potentially extend the expiration from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022, according to a notice published Monday on a federal procurement website.
The notice is not a request for proposals but DOE said companies that can replace Swift & Staley on short notice could submit documentation to Jennifer Stokes within 15 days, which translates to March 9, by email to Jennifer Stokes jennifer.stokes@pppo.gov.
Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration (SBA) could decide by April whether Swift & Staley qualified for the now-disputed follow-on award. In January, following a complaint by a losing bidder, Swift & Staley appealed SBA’s ruling that the company did not meet the size criteria for the five-year, $160-million Paducah Infrastructure Support Services Contract DOE awarded the incumbent in December.
The current Swift & Staley contract started in December 2015 and is valued at $224 million. It is a landlord services agreement to perform a variety of work that includes a variety of assignments ranging from janitorial services to maintenance of parking lots, roads and buildings to recordkeeping and cyber security.
If the government ultimately quashes the follow-on award to Swift & Staley, it would mark the second time in the last several years that a services contract at the Portsmouth-Paducah Project Office has been pulled back. In August 2020, DOE re-awarded a technical services contract at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio to a Pro2Serve subsidiary. The same company initially won the contract in June 2018.