The Department of Energy has awarded four indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts for technical support services at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
The agency’s Office of River Protection at Hanford issued the awards on Nov. 20 to Independent Strategic Management Solutions Inc., of Richland, Wash.; Street Legal, of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; JFA-RC Technical Services LLC, of Richland; and Katmai Health Services, of Anchorage, Alaska. The contracts were restricted to 8(a) small businesses, which are small businesses with 51 percent ownership by socially and economically disadvantaged U.S. citizens.
The contracts would pay for staff, which could include electrical safety specialists, emergency management consultants, nuclear safety consultants, readiness support consultants, quality assurance specialists and site inspectors. They would initially replace services provided under contracts with Independent Strategic Management Solutions Inc. and RC Engineering and Construction Management, as their current work assignments conclude. A similar contract with North Wind expires in 2020.
The four companies will compete for future IDIQ task orders to provide personnel for technical work at a fixed hourly rate, according to DOE. The four new contractors would compete for a total of $8 million in the first base year of each contract, with two one-year extensions possible. The total value is $49.9 million, with spending increasing as current technical support services assignments and contracts end. The goal is to increase competition for technical support services to provide cost-effective task orders, according to DOE.
