AMWTP Contractor Earns $3.3 Million in Fee for FY 2014
WC Monitor
12/12/2014
Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, which is responsible for the Idaho Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project, earned $3.3 million out of an available $5.3 million in Fiscal Year 2014, according to information the Department of Energy released this week. ITG’s fee was based on “cost and schedule performance in waste retrieval and processing and other factors,” Tim Jackson, a spokesman for the DOE Idaho Operations Office, said in a written response, declining to provide additional details. ITG declined to comment this week.
The AMWTP is used to process transuranic and other wastes at DOE’s Idaho site for off-site disposition. In the wake of the current shutdown of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, though, DOE moved earlier this year to modify ITG’s contract to incentivize mixed low-level waste disposition, as well as retrieval of the remaining transuranic waste stored at the AMWTP. “The ITG contract and associated work plan would have allowed for as much as $5.8 million in earned fee through the end of Fiscal Year 2014. In light of the unavailability of WIPP, the contract was rebaselined with changes in production priorities, new scope, and overall production expectations, all of which combined to change the way ITG could earn fee, up to $5.3 million,” Jackson said.
