EM’s Idaho National Laboratory Site cleanup contractor has signed a mentor-protégé agreement with a firm named DOE’s Small Business of the Year.
Office of Environmental Management
August 18, 2020
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – EM’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site cleanup contractor has signed a mentor-protégé agreement with a firm named DOE’s Small Business of the Year for fiscal 2019.
The agreement will benefit both companies. Fluor Idaho, the mentor, will provide MarCom, the protégé, on-site work experience for employees and business development expertise to enhance the small company’s ability to bid on future federal contracts.
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.
“This is a great program developed by the Department of Energy to share valuable business expertise between two companies,” Fluor Idaho Small Business Liaison Jennifer Lloyd said. “The idea behind it is to increase the pool of companies that can provide trained staff and beneficial services at DOE sites.”
Fluor Idaho and INL nominated MarCom to be named the 2019 Small Business of the Year by OSDBU. Read more about DOE's fiscal 2019 small business award winners here.
In its nomination of MarCom for the award, Fluor Idaho noted the company's innovative ideas and extraordinary customer service in response to Fluor Idaho's growing work scope in fiscal 2019, and that MarCom provided integral technical support in areas such as information technology and records management.
Founded in 2003, MarCom is a Native American- and woman-owned small business that provides management, administrative, engineering, nuclear operations, and health and safety services to DOE sites throughout the U.S.
Marcella Medor, MarCom’s president, is enthusiastic about the potential the agreement creates.
“We will bring our unique skillsets to Fluor Idaho, while gaining the knowledge and business expertise to facilitate continued growth and long-term company success,” Medor said.
This is Fluor Idaho’s second mentor-protégé agreement with a small business. The cleanup contractor also signed an agreement with HukariAscendent to provide planning, nuclear safety, and engineering specialists in support of the Idaho Cleanup Project Core contract.