Rockville, Maryland, August 20,2024—MELE Associates, Inc. (MELE), a veteran-owned , minority-owned small business with more than three decades of success in the government contracting space, announced today that the company, as part of the Allegheny Science & Technology Corporation (AST) team, won a non-personal performance-based Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call order to provide support services to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Deployment Office (GDO). This award falls under the Technical, Engineering, and Programmatic III (TEPS III) BPA.
The DOE’s mission is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions. The mission of the DOE’s GDO is to provide electricity to everyone everywhere, by maintaining and investing in critical generation facilities to ensure resource adequacy and improving and expanding transmission and distribution systems. GDO works to execute grid modernization solutions that help achieve clean energy goals and mitigate climate change impacts, while ensuring the availability of clean, firm generation capacity such as hydroelectric and nuclear energy. GDO activities are supported by numerous appropriations such as annual appropriations, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law appropriations, Inflation Reduction Act appropriations, among others.
“We are proud to lend our operational and technical expertise to the AST team in their ongoing efforts to support the GDO’s important mission. This GDO award is another milestone in MELE’s nearly 20-year MELEMAX partnership with the DOE that has spanned a wide array of projects for a range of DOE offices,” stated Greg Hansen, MELE’s Chief Operating Officer.
The value and Period of Performance for MELE’s portion of the award were not immediately disclosed.
With over 300 employees and offices in Rockville, MD, Washington, DC, and Albuquerque, NM, MELE is a veteran and minority-owned government contractor empowering its customers with innovative solutions for more than three decades. MELE has team members located across the U.S. and has served more than a hundred countries across hundreds of project locations. The company offers technical, engineering, and programmatic support expertise to a host of U.S. federal and international agencies, including, but not limited to, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, INTERPOL, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. MELE’s services include National Security and Intelligence, CBRNE Defense and Security, Facility Management and Engineering, Law Enforcement and Emergency Response Training, Technical, Analytica, and Program Management Support, and IT/Cybersecurity.
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