The Department of Energy in late May will hold an information session and site tour for potential bidders on a new Infrastructure Support Service contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky.
DOE’s Office of Environmental Management recently announced it would extend the incumbent landlord contractor Swift & Staley for up to 16 months, potentially through November 2025.
The planned presentation for prospective bidders was scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Central Time at the Paducah/McCracken County Convention and Expo Center, according to materials accompanying a Friday notice published on the System for Award Management, sam.gov.
The presentation, which will brief participants on the planned scope of work and history of the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant complex, will conclude by 10:15 a.m. local time, according to the announcement. DOE’s usual restrictions, forbidding recording of the briefing itself, will be in place.
Interested participants may also take part in a bus tour of the Paducah Site after the presentation. The bus will show up at the convention center by 11:45 a.m. The bus tour should commence at 12:30 p.m. and be finished by 5 p.m., according to the notice.
To request participation in the briefing or site tour email DOE by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on May 21 at [email protected].
DOE has said a request for proposals could be out as soon as this month.
Swift & Staley won a new long-term landlord contract, set-aside for small businesses, in December 2020. But the award was quickly challenged by a rival, Akima, which would successfully argue in federal court that Swift & Staley failed to meet the size criteria for this $160-million set-aside contract.
A panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed, unanimously ruling against Swift & Staley in December 2022, days after hearing oral arguments in the case.
Swift & Staley has held the site service contract, which includes landlord tasks from snow removal to records management, since October 2015. The contract, extended several times now, was valued at $396 million in November 2023.
Editor’s note, 05/28/2024, 1:26 p.m. Eastern time. The story was corrected to show that federal courts found Swift & Staley did not meet the size criteria for the award.
