Validata Chemical Services v. United States Department of Energy

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

RANDOLPH D. MOSS, United States District Judge

In 2011, Defendant Department of Energy (“DOE”) awarded a contract for environmental remediation services to URS %CO CH2M Oak Ridge, LLC (“UCOR”). In 2012, Plaintiff Validata Chemical Services (“Validata”) bid on, but did not win, a small business set-aside subcontract for data validation services to support UCOR’s remediation work. Validata then sought to contest the award of the subcontract to its competitor, Portage, Inc., arguing that Portage did not meet the applicable size standard for the small business set-aside…