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January 19, 2009 6:00 PM

Current Conctractor at Hanford Extended due to Protest

By
Matthew Potter
(MoneyWatch)  We wrote recently about the GAO denying the protest of the support contract award at the Hanford site in Washington. The GAO did say though that there was enough issues that the solicitations needed to be reviewed and possibly a new source selection held with the existing bidders. Due to this the Government extended the contract of Fluor Hanford as the Seattle Post Intelligencer reports. Fluor Hanford is the incumbent contractor who did not compete for the new contract. That was awarded to team led by Lockheed Martin but the team of CSC and Batelle protested. It is not uncommon to do this as the work still needs to be done and the protest may take a few months to resolve. Fluor was extended six months to the Summer.

Updated 01/20/09 to state that Fluor Hanford did not participate in the competition for the new contract.

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