Cumulative federal obligations under the Department of Energy's management-and-operating (M&O) contract with the Leland Stanford Junior University for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have reached $14,884,413,468.37, according to award data on USAspending.gov. The contract (award ID DEAC0276SF00515) was originally signed Nov. 20, 1978, and its current period of performance runs through Sept. 30, 2027. The all-options ceiling value of the contract is listed at $24,976,833,218.98.

SLAC operates as a Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated (GOCO) Federally Funded Research and Development Center under the Department of Energy's Office of Science, with the awarding contracting office recorded as DOE's Oak Ridge Office. For GovCon practitioners, national-laboratory M&O contracts represent a distinct and durable category of federal spending: USAspending records this award as "not available for competition" (extent-competed code B), with zero offers received and the noncompetitive award authorized by statute under FAR 6.302-5(a)(2)(i) — the provision covering continuation of work by a specialized facility operator. The contract is coded as cost-no-fee pricing.

The award is classified under NAICS 541710 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences) and product/service code M181 ("Operation of Government R&D GOCO Facilities"). USAspending lists the place of performance as Menlo Park, California, San Mateo County — SLAC's actual site — while the contracting office is administratively housed in DOE's Oak Ridge Office. The current five-year contract term, which began Oct. 1, 2022, followed a prior five-year term (Oct. 1, 2017 – Sept. 30, 2022) that the Department of Energy valued at $1.73 billion, according to DOE's own announcement of that earlier award; SLAC operates three DOE Office of Science user facilities — the Linac Coherent Light Source, the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, and the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests.

Source: USAspending.gov