Regional Businesses Benefit As SRR Exceeds DOE’s Recovery Act Business Goals

Aiken, SC -- Local and small businesses in the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) have benefited from more than $11 million worth of business since last October from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ( ARRA) project at the Savannah River Site.

The hefty level of business activity has allowed Savannah River Remediation (SRR), the Liquid Waste contractor at SRS, to surpass a number of business goals and commitments made to DOE.

“We’re pleased to be working with and creating opportunities for our local area and small businesses in the region. The early results are gratifying“ said SRR Small Business Program Manager Phillip Mottel. He added “the Recovery Act is intended to court local companies in the area. As a small business advocate, I want to make sure local companies have opportunities to fairly compete for work—and they are.”

Most notably, by spending nearly $11 million in the Georgia counties of Columbia and Richmond and the South Carolina counties of Aiken, Barnwell and Allendale, SRR exceeded by nearly three times its commitment to spend 25 percent of its Recovery Act-funded procurements with local area businesses.

SRR also exceeded its Small Business goal of placing 50 percent of its procurements with small business. One hundred and twenty five transactions totaling more than $9 million provided the contractor a broad range of procurements including, for example, technical staffing services and various industrial materials and equipment.

Forty transactions exceeding more than $2.7 million allowed SRR’s Recovery Act project to also significantly exceed its goal to support small, women-owned businesses.