Small Tri-Cities business awarded $75M federal contract
.jpg "ISMSolutions previously provided structural engineering consulting for demolition work at the Hanford site’s highly contaminated Plutonium Finishing Plant.")
A small business in Richland has been awarded a contract worth up to $74.8 million to provide technical, management and administrative services at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge, Tenn., nuclear environmental cleanup site.
Independent Strategic Management Solutions was DOE’s choice for the contract based on key personnel, organization and staffing approach, past performance and value to taxpayers, according to a DOE announcement Thursday.
The Richland-based company is led by Shirley Olinger, the former manager of the DOE Hanford Office of River Protection, overseeing work to build the vitrification plant and manage 56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste in underground tanks. She launched ISM Solutions in 2013.
The list of workers for ISMSolutions include many former leaders, project managers and specialists for Hanford nuclear site work, including those who previously worked on key environmental projects at Hanford for DOE, contractors and the Washington state Department of Ecology.
ISMSolutions says its team is “flexible, providing the optimum level of support for each project and sending world class experts as needed for just the amount of time necessary to accomplish the job.”
The company’s new contract includes a three-year base period and then two one-year option periods.
It will provide professional support services for the Oak Ridge site, including technical analyses, document preparation and review, assistance in oversight activities, corrective action management, information management, technical editing, training, logistical coordination, performance analysis and record maintenance.
Currently the work is done by Link Technologies, based in Maryland, which holds a contract expiring May 31.
ISMSolutions has been awarded multiple federal contracts, including a $375 million joint contract with Navarro Research and Engineering to support environmental compliance activities for NASA and a $350+ million blanket purchase agreement, that allows it to provide Hanford support services.
It has previously provided structural and nuclear engineering support for Hanford, including for the Plutonium Finishing Plant demolition, and nuclear safety expertise for the massive Hanford vitrification plant being built and commissioned to glassify radioactive waste.
It is qualified through the Small Business Administration as a woman-owned small business.