The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science added a combined $17.9 million in incremental funding to its management-and-operating contract with Brookhaven Science Associates LLC for Brookhaven National Laboratory through two modifications dated June 29, 2026, according to federal procurement records. A further contract modification, an administrative action carrying no dollar change, was logged July 20, 2026. Total obligations on the contract now stand at $8,561,512,218, matching the amount reported in internal tracking data.

For GovCon practitioners, the activity underscores how DOE's national laboratory M&O contracts operate: incremental funding actions against an existing ceiling are routine and do not by themselves signal a recompete, scope change, or new award. No evidence of a pending rebid or protest was found. Separately, DOE announced in February 2026 that it had approved Critical Decision 3B for the Electron-Ion Collider, a major accelerator project under construction at Brookhaven — a distinct capital-project funding decision from the M&O contract actions reported here, though it involves the same site.

The contract, numbered DE-SC0012704, was signed December 22, 2014, following full-and-open competition in which DOE received two offers. Its period of performance runs January 5, 2015 through January 4, 2030, structured across multiple option segments; Brookhaven's own contract page lists the current performance segment as January 2025 through January 2030. The award's base-and-all-options ceiling is $8,916,966,892.46. It is classified under NAICS code 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, except Biotechnology) and product/service code M1HA (Operation of Government-Owned Contractor-Operated R&D Facilities). Place of performance is Upton, New York, in Suffolk County. Brookhaven Science Associates, a partnership between Battelle Memorial Institute and the Research Foundation for SUNY on behalf of Stony Brook University, has held the M&O role since 1998.

Source: USAspending