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Energy Dept.'s unbundling plan under attack.(United States. Department of Energy)
Set-Aside Alert, May, 2004
The Energy Department's large facility management contractors attacked the department's plan to break up some of their huge contracts so that small businesses could compete for the work.
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM), chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, agreed with some of the prime contractors' concerns at a May 18 hearing. Two of Energy's big national laboratories, Los Alamos and Sandia, are in his home state.
The General Accounting Office also questioned the unbundling plan. "The concept of contracting highly technical, complicated large projects to small businesses that may not have the workforce or expertise unless they partner with large contractors is not sensible or efficient," said Robin Nazzaro, GAO's director of natural...
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