EM’s cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site has partnered with an Idaho Falls-based small business through DOE’s Mentor-Protégé Program.
Office of Environmental Management
March 12, 2024
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — EM’s cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site has partnered with an Idaho Falls-based small business through DOE’s Mentor-Protégé Program.
DOE's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) manages the Department's Mentor-Protégé Program. The program seeks to foster long term business relationships between small businesses and DOE prime contractors and to increase the number of small businesses that receive DOE prime contracts and subcontracts.
Under the program agreement, Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC), the mentor, will provide employees with MarCom, the protégé, with onsite work experience and business development expertise to enhance the company’s ability to bid on future federal contracts.
This is the first of two mentor-protégé agreements that IEC will sign with small businesses, and IEC recognizes that the Mentor-Protégé Program benefits both DOE contractors and small businesses.
“This program is designed to foster long term relationships between DOE prime contractors and small businesses, which provides mutual benefit to both parties,” IEC Small Business Liaison Elisabeth Warn said. “Small businesses bring significant economic value to the communities in which they are invested, and this program connects them to a larger portfolio of work."
Marcella Medor, MarCom president, sees great value in the opportunities the agreement provides.
“Our workforce has expertise in a number of skilled disciplines,” she said. “This mentorship provides an opportunity for our company to grow and develop skills that will make us more competitive as we bid for projects at other DOE sites.”
Founded in 2003, MarCom provides management, administrative, engineering, nuclear operations, and safety and health services to DOE sites throughout the country. It's a Native American- and woman-owned small business with additional offices in Butte, Montana, and Fort Collins, Colorado.
MarCom was also named the OSDBU 2019 Small Business of the Year.
In 2021, IEC was awarded a 10-year, $6.4 billion contract to manage cleanup at the INL Site, with a focus on early risk reduction and continued protection of the Snake River Plain Aquifer.
-Contributor: Carter Harrison
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