SRNS Reaps Nearly $45M in Fee for 16 Months of Savannah River Ops

Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions took home $44.6 or 96% of nearly $46 million in available fee for its work as operator of the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina for the 16-month period ended Nov. 30.

That is according to the latest fee scorecard for the joint venture published Tuesday by the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management.

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) also earned some 99.6% of roughly $3.15 million of potential fee for management of the Savannah River National Laboratory. Effective next week, a Battelle-led group will start running the laboratory under a standalone contract that includes a number of universities.

The site operations joint venture earned about 88% or $12.2 million of its subjectively-rated fee for the entire complex, including the lab. The SRNS objective criteria fee was $32.4 million or 99.6% during the period.

Previously, SRNS was awarded  95% of its overall potential fee for running the federal complex along the South Carolina-Georgia line for the 12-month period ending  July 31, 2019.

This time around, the Fluor-led team won kudos from the DOE for setting up a COVID-19 hotline and taking other steps to cope with the ongoing pandemic. Likewise, it handed out almost 80% of its subcontracts to small businesses, beating its 55% goal. Also, SRNS provided significant technical expertise in the ongoing meetings between the Office of Environmental Management and the National Nuclear Security Administration for “future distribution of site overhead rates” at Savannah River, according to the scorecard. 

On the downside, the contractor experienced problems with nuclear materials work throughout the period.

Other members of the SRNS team are Newport News Nuclear and Honeywell International.