GAO Denies Portage Protest of NNSS Enviro. Services Contract Award

The Government Accountability Office earlier this week denied a protest filed by Portage over Navarro Research and Engineering’s win of the new Nevada National Security Site environmental programs services contract. Portage, which declined to comment on the GAO’s decision yesterday, was one of two companies to protest Navarro’s win, with INTERA having dropped its protest to the GAO last month. In late September, the National Nuclear Security Administration announced that the Navarro-led team, which also includes Leidos and HydroGeoLogic, had won the new NNSS contract, valued at $59 million for performance over a one-year base period with four one-year option periods. Work to be performed under the new contract includes environmental characterization and remediation services at corrective action units at the Nevada National Security Site and parts of the Nevada Test and Training Range, including Tonopah Test Range, and radioactive waste acceptance services at generator sites across the country.