Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B), the vendor in charge of legacy environmental remediation operations at the U.S. Energy Department’s Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in New Mexico, won 84% of its potential fee for work done during fiscal 2019.
Altogether, N3B took home more than $8.6 million of a potential amount exceeding $10.2 million, according to the recently released performance scorecard.
The scorecard lists more than $1.8 million of a potential $3 million award for the subjective fee, and about $6.8 million of a potential $7.2 million on the objective side of the review.
The 84% result closely mirrors the 83% of fee N3B won in a January 2019 scorecard on its first five months of work at Los Alamos, from April 30 through Sept. 30 in 2018.
The N3B joint venture, comprised of Huntington Ingalls Industries subsidiary Stoller Newport News Nuclear (SN3) and BWX Technologies, were awarded the DOE contract worth roughly $1.39 billion in December 2017. It took over from Los Alamos Nuclear Security, which had served as both the legacy cleanup contractor and the operations manager for LANL.
In its latest evaluation, N3B scored “good” on three of five subjective rating categories – management, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance/safety. It was deemed “satisfactory” on schedule and cost control.
Areas that represent “opportunities for improvement” include Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) inspections, as well as the response time in repairing safety systems after failures, according to the document.
The partnership is in charge of cleaning up hundreds of sites, including waste disposal areas and a groundwater chromium plume, as well as shipping transuranic material to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad.
