Stoller Gets New Three-Month Extension for LM Support Services

S.M. Stoller (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries) is getting a new three-month extension to its current contract to provide support services for the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management as the Department’s efforts to award a follow-on contract continue. Stoller’s latest extension would run from July 1 to Sept. 30, and is worth approximately $26.6 million, a DOE spokesperson said yesterday. While Stoller’s contract was initially set to expire in September 2012, it has received a number of extensions while DOE has sought to compete and award the follow-on contract. Stoller was unable to lead a bid of its own for the new contract because it no longer met the size standard for the small business procurement, and instead had joined a team led by Wastren Advantage.

Last week, DOE informed all eight bidders on the follow-on contract that it would re-evaluate bids for a third time in response to the Government Accountability Office sustaining a protest filed by Navarro Research and Engineering over the Department’s decision to award, for a second time, the follow-on contract to Portage. DOE initially awarded the contract to Portage last April, leading to challenges from Navarro and the team of WAI-Stoller. In response, DOE chose last May to take corrective action by re-evaluating all eight bids, and then chose again early this year to award the new contract to Portage. Both Navarro and the WAI-Stoller team again protested DOE’s decision, and last month the GAO sustained Navarro’s protest but denied WAI-Stoller’s.