Amentum fights to keep lost DTRA contract
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Nick Wakeman
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency chose someone else for the $84 million advisory services that Amentum picked up through its acquisition of PAE.
Amentum is pushing back after its loss of a $84 million contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to a competitor.
Systems Planning and Analysis won the contract on July 18 to provide advisory and assistance services to DTRA’s strategic integration directorate.
SPA was chosen to provide subject matter experts as part of DTRA’s mission to combat weapons of mass destruction. Some of the requirements include planning support, risk and opportunity analysis, trends analysis and doctrine development, according to solicitation documents posted by DTRA.
Amentum is the incumbent on the current contract, according to Deltek. The company inherited it through its acquisition of PAE in 2022.
Centra Technology is the original awardee as that company won the work in 2016, then PAE acquired Centra in 2020.
Amentum filed its protest on Aug. 8 and the Government Accountability Office's decision due date in Nov. 16.
SPA is a mid-sized company backed by the private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners, which acquired the contractor 2021 and merged it with MCR another of its acquisitions. SPA has since made two other purchases to build its systems engineering and digital engineering services.