Amentum-led Savannah River Remediation, the liquid waste contractor at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, took home almost $64 million or 98% of its total potential fee for work done over an 18-month period ending Sept. 30, 2020.
The contractor was rated “very good” on its subjective fee as determined by DOE, claiming $9.2 million out of a potential $10.2 million, or roughly 90% of the available take, DOE said in a Thursday press release and in its accompanying scorecard.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management’s site manager, Mike Budney, praised the contractor for reaching key milestones during the period including: preparing the liquid waste facilities for the increased demands posed by hot commissioning of the Salt Waste Processing Facility in October; finishing the removal of bulk waste from Tank 10 and processing its salt waste via tank-closure cesium removal; and taking “proactive and aggressive steps” to reduce worker health risks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
There is about 36 million gallons of radioactive waste left over from nuclear weapons work at the DOE site near the Georgia border, which is currently stored in 49 underground carbon-steel waste tanks.
The DOE scorecard did list “worker safety incidents” as one area for one area for improvement.
The Amentum-led Savannah River Remediation also includes Bechtel, Jacobs and BWX Technologies. The team has handled liquid waste management at Savannah River since July 2009 and is scheduled to stay on through September. The current contract is valued at $7.4 billion.
In October, DOE issued a request for proposals for a follow-on liquid waste contract called the Savannah River Site Integrated Mission Completion Contract: a potentially 15-year, $21-billion agreement.
