Battelle Energy Alliance is set to earn less fee for managing the Idaho National Laboratory under a five-year contract extension announced late last week. While BEA was able to earn a maximum of $18.7 million in fee annually during its first five years at INL, for the next five years the contractor can only earn $16 million annually — a cut of approximately 15 percent, according to Tim Jackson, a spokesman for the Department of Energy’s Idaho Operations Office. “The fee pool was adjusted to better align INL with other comparable DOE national laboratories,” Jackson said in a written response yesterday. In a separate response yesterday, a lab spokeswoman said, "BEA agreed to manage and operate Idaho National Laboratory under a new fee structure for the next five years. Prior to the beginning of FY15, BEA and DOE will define performance goals and objectives as part this new fee structure."
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