TWO TEAMS CHALLENGE DUF6 SUPPORT CONTRACT AWARD TO NAVARRO

Two teams are challenging the Department of Energy’s award last week of a task order for support services to the Depleted Hexafluoride Conversion Project to Navarro Research and Engineerng. The Office of Environmental Management’s Consolidated Business Center has received two size status challenges claiming that Navarro does not meet the small business size standard for the procurement, and those have been forwarded to the Small Business Administration for a determination, DOE spokesman Bill Taylor said in a written response. “The EMCBC will wait for the determination by the SBA,” Taylor said. He did not specify which companies are challenging the award, but one of the companies is Strategic Management Solutions, WC Monitor has learned.

Navarro maintains that it meets the necessary size requirements. “Navarro is small under its Corporate GSA Consolidated Schedule,” Navarro Vice President for Business Operations Rick Lyon said yesterday. “Due to the unique properties of the Corporate schedule, Navarro believes that we have properly bid and been awarded this project and we are working with the SBA to respond to the protest.” The $22 million time and materials task order has a three-year performance period and two one-year extension options, and the award comes just four months after DOE released a solicitation for the small businesses set-aside in mid December.