Department of Energy award to SILVER LAKE CONSTRUCTION LLC: COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FACILITY SBA REQUIREM…

The Department of Energy's $45.6M award to Silver Lake Construction for a Computational Science and Engineering Facility in West Virginia is a federal-obligated high-security target. DOE facilities typically require multi-layer perimeter security, surveillance camera arrays covering data-center entrances and loading areas, and vehicle barriers at ingress points. The project scale and federal compliance profile suggest both permanent infrastructure (camera arrays, vehicle monitoring) and temporary mobilization-phase coverage (mobile surveillance towers for the construction lay-down yard and equipment staging zones). The award appears in the USAspending federal obligation record with no posted date declared in the source payload. DOE construction awards of this size typically mobilize within 60-90 days of obligation, which means the window for pre-budget security engagement may already be closing. The award is post-contract but the mobilization timing is unclear from the public record. If the GC has not yet procured site-security services, the opportunity is still live; if they have, the federal compliance angle (camera systems for access logging, vehicle monitoring for perimeter audits) may still leave a post-mobilization upsell path. Pittsburgh branch is the nearest at 144 miles, inside the 300-mile coverage radius. No warm-intro path exists in the region. The first move is to contact Silver Lake Construction's project manager (the GC on record) and ask whether the DOE facility security scope is still open or whether the federal compliance layer (surveillance cameras, vehicle access logging) is being procured separately from the GC's site-security subcontractor. Lead with mobile-tower availability for the construction-phase lay-down yard and pivot to permanent camera-array scope if the compliance procurement is separate.

• Ranked · score 46

  Saw the DOE Computational Science facility award to Silver Lake in West Virginia. Pittsburgh branch covers the site at 144 miles, worth a call on whether the federal compliance security layer is still open or being procured separately from site security?

  2026-05-02 10:30 · projects
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  verified on 2 of 4 — null-coordinate project, geographic checks skipped

  2026-05-02 10:30 · projects
• Project ingested

  Source: usaspending

  2026-04-29 00:04 · projects