In its final scorecard, CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation earned 78% of the fee available to it for about four months of work at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state.
Altogether, the Jacobs subsidiary pocketed $6.36 million out of an available $8.16 million for the period from Oct. 1, 2020 through Jan. 24, 2021. On the subjective performance, it earned $2.8 million out of $4.08 million and on the objective grading it took home $3.55 million out of $4.08 million.
The bottom line is not dramatically different from CH2M’s recent performance reviews. It earned about 83% of its overall fee in its scorecard for fiscal 2020. Before that it took home 79% of its fee for fiscal 2019.
Central Plateau Cleanup Co., made up of Amentum, Fluor, and Atkins, took over as Hanford’s main solid waste contractor in January. The team won the potentially 10-year, $10 billion contract for remediation at Hanford’s Central Plateau in December 2019, but bid protests and a delayed transition due to the COVID-19 pandemic held up the switch from CH2M Hill.
CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co., had been on the job since October 2008 under a $6.4 billion contract.
In its final months on the job, CH2M “met or exceeded the majority of performance goals and objectives for the performance period,” according to the assessment from the DOE Office of Environmental Management.
The DOE credited CH2M with ensuring a smooth transition to the new contractor, an effective COVID-19 response and construction startup on the Waste Encapsulation Storage Facility Modification Project that is designed to support transfer of cesium and strontium capsules from wet to dry storage.
The “areas for improvement” include the quality and timeliness of nuclear safety documentation, management of aging structures and performing required subcontractor audits, according to the DOE document.
