The Department of Energy (DOE) mission at the Oak Ridge
AND OBJECTIVE Reservation requires a paramilitary protective force comprised of
several hundred security police officers to safeguard the production
and storage of nuclear weapons components, special nuclear
material, and other sensitive work. Wackenhut Services, Inc.
(Wackenhut) initially provided protective force services for the
Oak Ridge Reservation under one contract. However, protective
services for the Y-12 National Security Complex were segregated
into a separate contract following the establishment of the National
Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). As a result, Wackenhut
now provides protective services for the Oak Ridge Reservation
under two essentially identical contracts. One contract, with the
DOE Oak Ridge Office, covers the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, East Tennessee Technology Park, and the DOE
Federal building complex in Oak Ridge. The other contract, with
the NNSA Y-12 Site Office in Oak Ridge, covers the Y-12
National Security Complex. The protective force contracts were
structured to combine elements of a time-and-materials type
contract with elements of an incentive type contract, characterized
as a time-and-materials-award fee contract.
