The contractor will provide the expertise and perform all necessary services to ensure timely and effective administration, and completion of numerous Facility Clearance (FCL)/ Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) adjudicative, clearance management and processing activities, actions, and products. This RFP is to provide non-personal support services essential for the successful accomplishment of the OPFC responsibilities, including all personnel security program support. The solicitation anticipated award of a performance-based cost-plus-fixed-fee type contract, for a 3-year base performance period and a 2-year option period. The Department of Energy issued the RFP on February 25, 2015, as a small business set-aside to provide Office of Personnel Security and Facility Clearance (OPFC) support services for the National Nuclear Security Administration. Synergy challenges the agency's evaluation under the cost and non-cost factors, and maintains that the agency failed to conduct meaningful and equal discussions. DE-SOL-0006736 to TUVA, LLC, of Herndon, Virginia, for services in support of the Office of Personnel and Facility Clearances at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Synergy Solutions, Inc., (Synergy) of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a small business, protests the award of a contract by the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, under request for proposals (RFP) No. Protest challenging agency's technical and past performance evaluation is denied, where the agency evaluated the proposals in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. Protest challenging portions of the agency's evaluation of proposals is dismissed as untimely where the protester could have and should have raised the protest grounds during the prior protest.ģ. Protest that the agency's cost realism evaluation of the awardee's proposed costs was unreasonable is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and supported by the record.Ģ. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.ġ. William Mayers, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Mitchell Baker, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for TUVA, LLC, the intervenor. Langston, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester.Īmy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Esq., Olivia L. Litteken, Esq., Julia Di Vito, Esq., and Marc B.

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