Hanford subcontract for 200 employees expires without renewal

Hanford contractor Mission Support Alliance is making job offers to employees of subcontractor Akima Facilities Management because the Akima subcontract is expiring Friday.

About 200 Akima employees perform warehousing, custodial and some maintenance and heavy equipment operations under Mission Support Alliance, which provides site-wide services at the Hanford nuclear reservation.

The expiration of the subcontract comes as Mission Support Alliance’s Department of Energy contract at the Hanford site is set to expire May 25.

DOE has announced it wants to award the new 10-year, $4 billion site support services contract to Mission Integration Solutions, which shares ownership with Mission Support Alliance.

Both companies are owned by Leidos and Centerra, with Parsons a third owner of the proposed new contractor.

The contract award has been challenged by a competing bidder, a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries.

The Government Accountability Office is expected to rule on the bid protest no later than May 20. The GAO deadline was extended from April 22 as more information was filed.

This story was originally published February 25, 2020 at 1:00 PM.