Potential bidders on the new Infrastructure Support Services Contract at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio can perhaps take time to watch football and eat turkey over Thanksgiving, as the agency has extended the deadline from Dec. 1 until Dec. 10.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) on Tuesday issued an amendment to the request for proposals that was issued in October. The change stipulates the applications are now due by 4 p.m. Eastern Time on Dec. 10.
The DOE was asked by a potential bidder earlier this month to extend the application deadline by 30 days, according to a package of questions and answers posted on the Portsmouth procurement website Tuesday. The questioner, not identified in such public filings, said a solicitation was not provided, and “there has been a delay in posting numerous critical documents to the documents library” online.
The DOE agreed only that the deadline would be extended until Dec. 10, noting the agency started its market research on the contract back in February 2019 with issuance of a request for information.
Portsmouth Mission Alliance, comprising Idaho-based North Wind Group and Swift & Staley, holds the current $117-million contract that started in March 2016 and is set to run until Feb. 24, 2021.The incumbent team’s full-time employment on the Portsmouth contract amounts to 69 salaried and 73 union workers, according to the DOE answers posted online.
The winning contractor team will do landlord-type chores, including road upkeep, building maintenance, information technology and safeguards and security and property and records management at the 3,778-acre site where the former uranium enrichment plant is being cleaned up.
