Platinum Solutions gets $48M DOE contract

Platinum Solutions Inc., a systems integrator and developer of custom software for the federal government, announced Tuesday it has been awarded a $48 million, five-year contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to provide information technology and engineering support services to the National Energy Technology Laboratory, including the lab’s site in Oregon.

Under the terms of the contract, Reston, Va.-based Platinum Solutions will support a range of information technology services for lab facilities in Albany, Ore.; Morgantown, W.V.; Pittsburgh; Houston; and Fairbanks, Alaska. The laboratory is the only national lab dedicated to energy research and development from domestic energy resources.

The Albany facility was formed in 1942 and has been focused on the Department of Energy’s FutureGen project to address the air quality issues of coal by developing cleaner processes and carbon capture and sequestration technologies.

Specifically, the Albany lab is researching materials used in coal gasification.

Support services from the Platinum contract will include cyber security, network engineering, systems design and integration, enterprise architecture, enterprise systems support, and help desk support.