EM Awards Fees for Contractors’ Performance Across DOE Complex

EM recently awarded performance-based fees payments to 14 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex, including Hanford, Savannah River, Paducah, Portsmouth, Nevada, Idaho, Los Alamos and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

The cleanup program releases information relating to contractor fee payments — earned by completing work called for in the contracts — to further transparency in its cleanup program.

Following are the fee payments for the contractors over varying performance evaluation periods:

• Hanford Site Office of River Protection (ORP) 222-S Laboratory contractor Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration received nearly $2.27 million, or 92% of the available fee of about $2.46 million for fiscal 2022.
• Hanford Richland Operations Office mission-support contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions earned about $20 million, or almost 90% of the available fee of more than $22.3 million for fiscal 2022.
• Washington River Protection Solutions, the ORP tank operations contractor, was awarded more than $45.7 million, or nearly 87% of the available fee of $52.7 million for fiscal 2022.
• Savannah River Site (SRS) management-and-operations (M&O) contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions received almost $37 million, or nearly 95% of the available fee of about $39 million for fiscal 2022.
• Savannah River Mission Completion, the liquid waste contractor at SRS, received $26,880, or 96% of the available fee of $28,000 for the period of June 27 to Sept. 30, 2022.
• At Savannah River National Laboratory, M&O contractor Battelle Savannah River Alliance earned nearly $6.2 million, or close to 94% of the available fee of about $6.6 million for fiscal 2022.
• Centerra-Savannah River Site, the protective force services contractor at SRS, was awarded about $6.3 million, or 94% of the available fee of more than $6.7 million for the period of Oct. 8, 2021, to Oct. 7, 2022.
• Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, the Paducah Site cleanup contractor, received $16.8 million, or 80% of the available fee of nearly $21 million for fiscal 2022.
• Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, the Portsmouth Site decontamination and decommissioning contractor, was awarded $14 million, or 93% of the available fee of $15 million for the period of March 29 to Sept. 30, 2022.
• Mid-America Conversion Services earned $7.8 million, or 93% of the available fee of approximately $8.5 million for fiscal 2022, for its operation and maintenance of the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at the Portsmouth and Paducah sites.
• Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., EM’s cleanup contractor for the Nevada National Security Site, was awarded close to $1.12 million, or 89% of the available fee of more than $1.25 for fiscal 2022.
• Idaho Environmental Coalition, EM’s cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory Site, received about $13.34 million, or nearly 94% of the available fee of about $14.26 million for the period of May 1 to Sept. 30, 2022.
• Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, the EM Los Alamos Field Office legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, earned more than $7.16 million, or 77% of the available fee of $9.28 million during fiscal 2022.
• Nuclear Waste Partnership, the M&O contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, earned more than $11.14 million, representing close to 72% of the available fee of close to $15.58 million for fiscal 2022.