March 17, 2014

DOE RELEASES DRAFT WORK STATEMENT FOR OAK RIDGE PRO FORCE CONTRACT

By ExchangeMonitor

Potential bidders for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge protective forces contract are getting a peek at the performance work statement for the scaled-back opportunity. DOE late last week released a draft of the performance work statement, outlining its security needs after a decision earlier this month to eliminate protective force work at the Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant from what was expected to be a major combined contract. What remains is work to guard Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the East Tennessee Technology Park and the Office of Science Federal Building Complex.

In the draft performance work statement, DOE said it was seeking an “effective and efficient” protective force system that is “robust, resilient, adaptive, and consistent with the changing mission needs of the protected facilities.” It added: “An effective system also must provide a coordinated risk-based approach to providing protection of multiple facilities at multiple sites with operations ranging from open collaborative science research to protection of [special nuclear material] and classified matter. An efficient system operates at reasonable cost and imposes minimal burdens on the organizations carrying out primary missions at the facilities. Therefore, the objectives of this contract is to improve performance in the execution of PF security services at DOE-OR facilities and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of PF operations.” Questions on the draft PWS are due by 4 p.m. Eastern Time Aug. 28 to [email protected]. DOE is expected to release an amended RFP for the contract Sept. 7.

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