In a notice released in January, DOE’s Office of Environmental Management indicated it could push back the expiration of the contracts held by the three companies – Tennessee-based RSI EnTech and Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve), along with New Mexico-based Strategic Management Solutions – from April 1 to Dec. 31, if needed. A series of 3-month extensions by the Energy Department would allow it.
ExchangeMonitor.com reports Pro2Serve’s extension could be worth $5.6 million for continued technical support services at the Paducah site. Strategic Management Solutions would receive up to $10 million for its support services for conversion of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) at both Portsmouth and Paducah. RSI EnTech could receive up to $9 million to continue providing technical services at Portsmouth “if they are extended all the way through December,” a DOE spokesperson said Monday.
Last year, the Department of Energy tried to replace the three individual contracts with a single one that covered everything in the separate contracts - information technology, infrastructure, administrative support, and technical engineering. The agency awarded a five-year, $137 million consolidated contract to Pro2Serve last June, but withdrew the award in August following a bid protest.
The Energy Department has not publicly discussed its plans for a new procurement for long term technical support services at Portsmouth and Paducah.
Portsmouth and Paducah are the sites of two now-retired gaseous diffusion plants used to enrich uranium first for military purposes and later for commercial nuclear power sites.
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