The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied two bid protests filed over RSI EnTech’s potential $1 billion support services contract with the Energy Department’s Office of Legacy Management.
In March, the Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based environmental and technical contractor won a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with Legacy Management. Both incumbent Navarro Research and Engineering and LATA-Atkins Technical Services filed contract challenges with the Government Accountability Office on March 23.
On Wednesday, the GAO issued notices that the two challenges were being denied. In both cases, the protests are covered by a protective order, which usually means some information will be redacted before a public version is released on the GAO website. That typically happens within two weeks of the initial notice.
Complaints filed with the congressional auditor are not publicly disclosed, so information on the challengers’ arguments for overturning a contract don’t become public until the written order is released.
The current small business set-aside contract with Oak Ridge-based Navarro is worth $366 million. Under the new agreement, RSI will support the Office of Legacy Management mission to fulfill post-closure responsibilities at 100 cleanup locations across the United States and Puerto Rico, including old DOE Office of Environmental Management nuclear sites such as Fernald in Ohio and Rocky Flats in Colorado.
The new contract covers routine inspections of various types of containment systems, maintaining soil and groundwater treatment systems, along with managing numerous properties. The new deal has a minimum value of $500,000 but a maximum value of $1 billion, depending on how many tasks are ordered.
