The Department of Energy and Idaho Treatment Group, LLC, are in talks to add language setting financial penalties for the early departure of key personnel to ITG’s contract to manage the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project at DOE’s Idaho site, WC Monitor has learned. The discussions come after ITG has already moved to replace two out of its set of five initial key personnel. Late last week, less than a month after officially taking over as the new AMWTP contractor, ITG announced that its Project Manager, Dan Swaim, was retiring and would be replaced by Richard Raaz, with the change to be completed by the end of the month. Even before completing transition, ITG had to replace its plant manager after its first candidate for the position was unable to transfer to the project.
Most DOE prime cleanup contracts include language that reduce a contractor’s fee if key personnel depart prior to the end a set commitment period typically lasting two-to-three years. Such language was not included as part of the AMWTP procurement, which was managed by DOE’s Idaho Operations Office. When asked earlier this month why a key personnel clause had not been included in ITG’s contract, Deputy Assistant EM Secretary for Acquisition and Contract Management Jack Surash said only that such language is “a standard feature of all EM centrally run contracts.” When asked if DOE had made a mistake in not including such language in the contract, Surash reiterated, “All I can say is it’s a feature of all EM centrally run contracts.”
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