Wastren Advantage Inc. (WAI) took home 96.1 percent of the potential award fee for its laboratory analysis and testing contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state for the period from Nov. 21, 2016, to Sept. 20, 2017, according to a recent performance scorecard from the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management.
Wastren took in roughly $184,000 of the more than $191,000 available. The company claimed the full amount available for the three performance-based incentives: delivery, evaluations, and maintain holding times. Those three categories accounted for 60 percent of the award percentage.
The company did not do quite as well on two of the four categories that each accounted for 10 percent of the total potential award. It notched 7 percent of an available 10 percent on business interfaces and efficiency, and 9.1 percent on worker safety, health, and safety culture.
Wastren won the full 10 percent available for the two other categories: analytical reporting and data quality and environmental stewardship and compliance.
On areas for improvement, there were “two concerning instances” in which workers did not properly comply with radiological work package procedures, according to the scorecard, which noted one instance of radon skin contamination. Further details were not immediately available at press time.
The contract covers Wastren’s analysis and testing services work at Hanford’s 222-S Laboratory, which is managed by Washington River Protection Solutions. Each year, Wastren analyzes thousands of highly radioactive samples from Hanford’s waste storage tanks to determine organic, inorganic, and radio-chemistry content.
Wastren’s $44.6 million contract, signed in 2015, would run through September 2020 with all extensions being exercised. The Piketon, Ohio-based facilities operations and remediation company received 88.1 percent of its possible fee in a scorecard issued for the 222-S lab a year ago.
The Energy Department revealed Jan. 3 that it is gearing up for another 222-S lab contract procurement, which appears to be for the Wastren analytic contract.
