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, Oak Ridge, Paducah, Portsmouth, Nevada, Idaho, Los Alamos, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Savannah River National Laboratory.

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:

• Washington River Protection Solutions, the Hanford Site Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor, was awarded nearly $38.5 million, or 82% of the available fee of more than $47 million for fiscal year 2023.
• ORP 222-S Laboratory contractor Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration received just over $3.4 million, or 74% of the available fee of almost $4.6 million for fiscal year 2023.
• Savannah River Site (SRS) management-and-operations (M&O) contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions received over $27.9 million, or 96% of the available fee of nearly $29 million for fiscal year 2023.
• Savannah River Mission Completion, the liquid waste contractor at SRS, received more than $1.72 million, or nearly 99% of the available fee of nearly $1.74 for fiscal year 2023.
• Centerra-Savannah River Site, the protective force services contractor at SRS, was awarded more than $4.76 million, or 92% of the available fee of over $5.16 million for the period of Oct. 8, 2022, to July 14, 2023.
• At Savannah River National Laboratory, M&O contractor Battelle Savannah River Alliance earned nearly $5.9 million, or 97% of the available fee of almost $6.1 million for fiscal year 2023.
• UCOR, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management cleanup contractor, was awarded nearly $29 million, or 94% of the available fee of about $31 million for fiscal year 2023.
• Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, the Paducah Site cleanup contractor, received close to $8 million, or 92% of the available fee of nearly $8.7 million for fiscal year 2023.
• Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, the Portsmouth Site decontamination and decommissioning contractor, was awarded about $11.5 million, or 97% of the available fee of more than $11.8 million for the period of March 29 to Sept. 30 this year.
• Mid-America Conversion Services earned about $6.7 million, or 61% of the available fee of approximately $11 million for fiscal year 2023, for its operation and maintenance of the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at the Portsmouth and Paducah sites.
• Navarro Research and Engineering, EM’s cleanup contractor for the Nevada National Security Sites, was awarded close to $1.82 million, or 93% of the available fee of almost $1.96 million for fiscal year 2023.
• Idaho Environmental Coalition, EM’s cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory Site, received nearly $35.2 million, or 96% of the available fee of more than $36.8 million for fiscal year 2023.
• Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, the EM Los Alamos Field Office legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, earned more than $13.2 million, or 77% of the available fee of about $17.2 million during fiscal year 2023.
• Salado Isolation Mining Contractors, the M&O contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, earned about $11.5 million, representing nearly 89% of the available fee of about $13 million for the period of Feb. 4 to Sept. 30 this year.