BWXT Conversion Services fared well and Restoration Services Inc. fared better, but Fluor Federal Services hit a skid and netted only half of its latest possible award fee, according to a raft of contract scorecards released recently by the Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office.
Restoration Services earned 96 percent of a possible $397,054 award fee for fiscal 2016, for a total of $381,172, under its environmental technical services contract for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, DOE said. The company earned “Excellent” ratings for all four of its performance areas: quality, and effectiveness in performing administrative support; environmental safety and health, quality assurance, and field support; performing project support; and managing the program.
BWXT Conversion Services, DOE’s outgoing contractor for processing depleted uranium hexafluoride at the Portsmouth Site and the Paducah Site in Kentucky, got 70 percent of its possible $5.5 million or so for fiscal 2016, for a total of just over $3.8 million. It was rated Excellent for utilization of small business; Very Good for cost control; Good for quality, management, and regulatory compliance; and Satisfactory on schedule.
“Conversion operations were suspended in Quarter 1 and remained suspended throughout the fiscal year,” DOE wrote on the scorecard, without elaborating. “Continued efforts are needed to restore conversion operations. Further, BWCS failed to submit on time several contract deliverables and only submitted them after notification by DOE of their delinquency.”
The company’s roughly $530 million contract to operate depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion facilities at Portsmouth and Paducah expires Jan. 31, after which Mid-America Conversion Services, led by Atkins, is set to take over the work under a five-year contract worth about $320 million.
BWXT spokesman Jud Simmons said Friday the company would not comment on the latest award fee scorecard for BWXT Conversion Services, which is a partnership with AECOM-owned URS.
Meanwhile, Fluor Federal Services earned about $3.3 million — just over half of its possible $6 million fee for the evaluation period that ran Aug. 1, 2015, through July 31, 2016. The company is deactivating the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant ahead of its eventual demolition.
FFS received a Good rating for quality and effectiveness of program/project support, and Satisfactory ratings in the three other evaluation areas: quality and effectiveness of documents and associated support, ESH&QA, and program/project management. The contractor left over $500,000 on the table for failing to develop quality systems for a nondestructive assay program that examines objects for signs of radioactive contamination without destroying them. Another $750,000 went unclaimed for missed cleanup milestones in the C-337 building.
Fluor Federal Services’ three-year, $421.5-million Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant deactivation contract expires in July 2017.
