The Department of Energy’s cleanup contractor for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio took home about $15 million, or 95%, of its total potential fee for cleaning up after uranium enrichment for the six months ended March 28.
The take includes about 85% of the contractor’s subjective fee: the portion of the earnings for which DOE gets to give the team a grade. The decontamination and decommissioning contractor also earned $4 million out of a potential $4.7 million for its remediation work subjectively judged by DOE.
Meanwhile, Fluor-BWXT-Portsmouth earned just short of $11 million or 100% for meeting tangible performance-based-initiatives, such as removing debris from the demolition of the X-326 process building and depositing it into the On-Site Waste Disposal Facility, according to the fee scorecard posted Tuesday by the DOE Office of Environmental Management.
It was another strong report card for Fluor-BWXT, which last time around won 93% of its total available fee.
“The contractor has demonstrated notable improvement since the last performance evaluation,” Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Manager Joel Bradburne said in a Tuesday DOE press release on the six-month review.
“The contractor exceeded many award fee criteria, demonstrating effective management and exceeding contractual requirements to accelerate progress on key mission priorities to the government’s benefit,” according to the fee scorecard.
There were some weaknesses in Radiation Protection Program compliance at the former gaseous diffusion plant complex and some paperwork problems, DOE said in the one-page document. “The contractor is working to improve these areas.”
Fluor-BWXT-Portsmouth has been the environmental prime at the site since August 2010 under a contract now valued at $5 billion. The current DOE contract is scheduled to expire Sept. 30 and DOE said Thursday it is awarding the new $5.87-billion contract to a team led by Amentum.
