SENATE PANEL TO EXAMINE DOE CLEANUP CONTRACTS

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight is gearing up to hold a hearing on the Department of Energy’s major cleanup contracts next month. In preparation for the June 20 hearing, the panel has sent letters seeking a variety of information to DOE’s Office of Environmental Management and a number of major cleanup contractors, including B&W, Bechtel, CH2M Hill, EnergySolutions, Fluor, Parsons and URS. Among the information the subcommittee has requested is information on whether performance milestones in contracts had been met, satisfaction ratings given to contractors, whether fee had been denied in certain instances and safety violations that may have occurred. The subcommittee has also asked the Defense Contract Audit Agency to provide copies of all audits conducted between 2002 and 2012 related to B&W, Bechtel, CH2M Hill, EnergySolutions, Fluor, Parsons and URS. More information on the upcoming hearing can be found here.