CHPRC EARNS ALMOST ALL AVAILABLE FEE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011

Fiscal Year 2011 appears to have been a very good year for CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. at Hanford, with the contractor having earned almost all of the available fee for base cleanup activities and Recovery Act-funded work. According to information the Department of Energy released yesterday, CHPRC earned approximately $8.533 million out of an available $8.583 million for base-funded cleanup work. The contractor’s fee included approximately $6.836 million in provisional fee for work underway to demolish Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant; and approximately $1.697 million in earned fee for other cleanup activities. CHPRC lost approximately $50,000 in fee for “document quality issues.”

 

For Recovery Act work, CHPRC earned approximately $58.13 million out of an available $59.25 million. The contractor lost approximately $487,000 for delays in completing work to disposition Hanford’s 209-E Critical Mass Laboratory and its ventilation system; and lost approximately $74,500 for delays in completing nuclear hazard reduction work at the 209-E facility. CHPRC also lost $50,000 for “performance quality issues at completion” for work to complete deactivation of the 105KE Reactor Building, according to DOE. CHPRC did not ask for $500,000 in available fee for work to install an alternate service water system at Hanford’s 100-K Area. “CHPRC is to be commended for successfully meeting the completion criteria to merit full payment for 14 of the 15 Base funded and 183 of the 187 Recovery funded performance measures in FY 2011. This is a significant achievement considering the complexities of the additional work completed with Recovery Act funds during this period,” Matt McCormick, manager of the DOE Richland Operations Office at Hanford, wrote in a fee determination letter to CHPRC.