The contractor in charge of decommissioning and decontamination of the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, earned $24.3 million of a potential fee of almost $33 million for the 16-month period ended Sept. 30, 2017.
The Energy Department’s recent release of the performance scorecard for Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth comes a couple weeks after the agency picked up the company’s final 30-month option to keep it on the job until March 2021 at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Fluor-BWXT began work on its 10-year contract, now worth $3. 7 billion, in March 2011.
In total, Fluor-BWXT took home roughly 74 percent of the total possible fee during this latest performance period. The contractor claimed about $7.1 million of a potential $9.85 million on the subjective portion of the scorecard, where it is graded on areas such as quality of program management and how well it addresses environmental, health, and safety issues. In addition, it earned $17.2 million of a potential of almost $23 million in the available fee for performance-based work.
The latest scorecard is a step up from the last review for a six-month period ended March 28, 2016, when the company earned about $6.8 million out of potentially more than $24 million. The company lost fee because of its difficulty with nondestructive assay characterization at the X-326 process building.
This performance period had its problems as the company earned zero percent of a performance goal for completing certain criticality documentation for the X-326 process building.
Otherwise, the contractor made progress in decommissioning the three major process buildings at Portsmouth. Fluor-BWXT started deactivation of the X-333 building during the period. The X-326 and the X-333 buildings, 1950s structures used in uranium enrichment, are now undergoing deactivation, with the X-330 building being the last one in line, a company spokesman said recently.
The scorecard noted 936 containers of waste were processed and shipped during the review period, although the document did specify where.
During the period, Fluor-BWXT did a performance assessment for the planned On-Site Waste Disposal Facility that will hold waste from cleanup at Portsmouth. The company also helped develop National Environmental Policy Act paperwork to support an 80-acre land transfer from DOE to the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative (SODI), which occurred in July of this year.
A Fluor-BWXT spokesman, Jack Williams, declined comment on the scorecard Thursday. The company employs about 1,900 workers at the site, according to its website.
