URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) scooped up nearly all of its available award fee for demolition and decommissioning at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee in the six months ended Sept. 30, according to the contractor’s latest award-fee scorecard.
During the period just scored, UCOR earned some $3.4 million in fees, good for about 94 percent of the total available in the final six months of fiscal 2016.
The fee includes over $1.4 million for good project management and nearly $2 million for meeting cost and schedule benchmarks: respectively, 89 percent and 99 percent of the total available for the two main categories DOE assesses for each award-fee period.
Notably during the period just scored, UCOR completed the roughly $300 million demolition of the site’s K-27 building at Oak Ridge, marking the first time in nearly 30-year history of the Environmental Management program that DOE has dismantled an entire uranium enrichment facility. UCOR started demolishing the 383,000-square-foot building in February after two years of pre-demo cleanup.
In the latest scorecard, DOE lauded UCOR for its progress and said the company “is performing well against the cost and schedule plan.” Likewise, UCOR’s projected timeline and cost for remaining cleanup work at Oak Ridge is “realistic and reasonable,” according to the department.
Within the project management category, UCOR left a little money on the table in the worker safety, health, and quality management subcategory. The company netted 80 percent of the total $648,732 available incentive. DOE did not specifically address UCOR’s shortcomings in this subcategory but did note there was “room for improvement” in several contract areas, including “the implementation of the hierarchy of controls and Industrial Hygiene Work Permit process for the repackaging of a deteriorated alumina oxide drum” located in a shipping container at the site’s Molten Salt Reactor experiment.
