The lame duck cleanup contractor at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the provider of depleted uranium hexafluoride services there and at the Paducah Site in Kentucky each collected most of the available fee for the opening four months of fiscal 2024, DOE said Tuesday.
In a press release, DOE’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office said Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth took home $9.8 million, or about 98% of its available fee for decontamination and decommissioning during the period starting Oct. 1, 2023, and running through Jan. 31, 2024.
Likewise, Mid-America Conversion Services, a team of Atkins, Fluor and Westinghouse, got about $1.6 million, or about 79% of the available fee, for that same four-month period, according to the release from DOE’s Office of Environmental Management.
In areas judged subjectively by the agency, Fluor-BWXT won more than $2.8 million out of a potential $3 million, roughly 94%. Mid-America won $463,000 out of a potential $629,000, 74%, for the four months, according to the DOE scorecards.
“Areas of deficiency and minor problems were satisfactorily remedied and were more than offset by areas of above satisfactory performance,” DOE said of Fluor-BWXT.
During the period workers have moved more than 2,600 truckloads of debris and soil from the X-333 Process Building, which is being torn down, to the On-Site Waste Disposal Facility.
As for Mid-America, DOE credited it for improving previously-cited problems with cyber security and subcontractor oversight but stressed the contractor must continue to be vigilant on these areas.
In the prior performance reviews from DOE, Fluor BWXT won 97% and Mid-America 61% of total available fee, for the six-month period ended Sept. 30, 2023.
It has been nearly a year since DOE selected Amentum-led Southern Ohio Cleanup to succeed Fluor-BWXT as the environmental prime at Portsmouth.
Although that award was not protested, DOE is holding off on installing the new team until it awards the Portsmouth/Paducah Operations and Site Mission Support Contract. The latter deal will include depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion work, now provided by Mid-America, along with other duties.
In the meantime, DOE has said it plans to extend both Mid-America and Fluor-BWXT through September.
