NRC Maintenance and Operational Support

The NRC Maintenance and Operational Support Master Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract is designed to provide comprehensive information technology (IT) maintenance, operational, and modernization services for approximately 100 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) application systems and IT environments. The contract, awarded in September 2012, establishes a flexible framework for procuring technical support services across multiple functional areas, with a substantial shared ceiling of $90 million. The primary objective of this contract vehicle is to enable the NRC to rapidly acquire scalable IT services for maintaining, operating, and modernizing its critical technological infrastructure through task order competitions.

Key task orders under this IDIQ predominantly focus on specific IT systems and operational support functions, with most task orders utilizing Labor Hours or Time and Materials pricing mechanisms. Leidos, Inc. emerged as a frequent prime contractor, winning multiple substantial task orders such as a $16.5 million task order for NRO Enterprise Project Management operations and a $8.3 million task order for NRC website maintenance. Task order values typically range from approximately $100,000 to $45 million, with performance periods generally spanning 1-3 years. The contract vehicle does not consistently use small business set-asides, with most task orders marked as "No Set-Aside Used". Geographically, task orders are primarily performed in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, supporting the NRC's central office in Rockville, Maryland. Functional areas covered include systems documentation, database administration, website management, enterprise project management, and legacy system maintenance.