October 27, 2014

PEC Adds to Protest of DOE HSS Support Services Contract

By ExchangeMonitor

Project Enhancement Corporation, the contractor that is protesting a Department of Energy Office of Health, Safety and Security technical and security support services contract, added several new complaints to its protest late last week, challenging DOE’s decision to quickly award the contract to Link Technologies after the Small Business Administration ruled that PEC did not qualify for the small business set-aside. DOE awarded the $44 million contract to Link Oct. 14, the same day that it terminated its award to PEC, and PEC has said the decision by the SBA to prohibit it from qualifying for the contract under an aerospace and military exception under the GSA professional engineering schedule “fundamentally changed” the competition. PEC said if its proposal was disqualified, DOE should have conducted market research before awarding the contract to Link.

PEC also noted that the SBA had re-certified PEC as a small business under a $15 million size standard June 1, which it said would have qualified PEC to compete as a small business if the contract was recompeted. DOE submitted a motion to dismiss PEC’s initial protest last week and filed a motion to dismiss the supplemental protest yesterday. PEC can respond to DOE’s motions by Wednesday. The contract was awarded under the National Nuclear Security Administration’s blanket purchase agreement.

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