The Energy Department intends to retain Swift & Staley for up to six more months as the infrastructure support services provider at the Paducah Site in Kentucky.
Paducah-based Swift & Staley’s $192 million contract dates to December 2015 and is set to expire in September 2020. As the firm’s initial three-year base period was expiring in November 2018, the Energy Department exercised its option to keep the vendor on for an additional 22 months.
The Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office announced its intent to execute a six-month extension, without competitive bids, in a June 25 posting on a federal procurement website. The extension would start Oct. 1 and could last through March 31, 2021.
In the notice, the agency said it makes little sense to bring in a different contractor on a stopgap basis before a new long-term contract is issued. The Energy Department in February issued Its final request for proposals (RFP) for a new long-term small business set-aside contract. Bids were due in April.
In addition to the incumbent, other firms that took part in a February industry day included Spectra Tech, Atkins Nuclear, GEM Technologies, Navarro Research and Engineering, ARS Aleut Remediation, Banda Group International, Boston Government Services, and Los Alamos Technical Associates.
Swift & Staley performs various landlord services at the former gaseous diffusion plant, including maintenance of buildings, roads, and parking lots; to records management; and cybersecurity. Generally, the infrastructure services contractor provides an array of essential tasks to support ongoing cleanup by Jacobs-led Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership under a potential 10-year, $1.48 billion contract that began in June 2017.
Any comments should be filed within 15 days of the posting, or July 10, to DOE Contracting Officer Jennifer Stokes at jennifer.stokes@pppo.gov.
Altogether, the Paducah complex is comprised of roughly 3,500 acres near the Ohio River in western Kentucky. About 750 acres are located inside the security fence.