NASA Awards Environmental Compliance and Operations Contract

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Jul 19, 2011, 03:58 ET

HOUSTON, July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected Navarro Research and Engineering Inc. of Oak Ridge, Tenn., to provide environmental management and services at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M.

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The White Sands Test Facility Environmental Compliance and Operations contract calls for a fixed-price one-year and seven month base period with a potential value of $3.1 million, and four one-year options with a total potential fixed-price value of $6.6 million. Based on variable funding and work requirements, the entire maximum potential value of the contract is $80 million.

Navarro's work includes hazardous waste management and operating permit compliance; management of the large-scale groundwater monitoring program; environmental clean-up projects and field investigations; air permit and emission inventory requirements; drinking water system compliance; petroleum tank system management; National Environmental Policy Act project evaluations; and recycling, waste minimization and pollution prevention.

This is a new contract award (NNJ11HB30C) as a result of Protest B-404880.1, B-404880.2 and the Agency Corrective Action Plan filed with the U.S. Government Accountability Office on May 24. Due to the protest, the period of performance is revised from the original two-year base period. The base period of performance for the contract is now one-year and seven months and is scheduled to begin on Sept. 1 and extend through April 30, 2013. One-year options are available during the following four years. The contract is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee and fixed-price task orders. The significant subcontractor on the contract is URS Group Inc. of Oak Ridge.

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