As expected, two losing contractor teams protested the U.S. Energy Dept.'s May 14 award to another bidder of a $13-billion, 10-year contract to manage operation and cleanup of the large waste storage tank farm at the agency's Hanford, Wash. complex. DOE awarded the contract to BWXT Technical Services teamed with Fluor Corp.
Tank Closure Partnership, which includes Jacobs Government Services and subsidiary CH2M filed its protest May 27. Hanford Tank Closure LLC, led by AECOM''s government services unit, now spun off as Amentum, filed the same day, according to the website of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which rules on federal bid protests.