The contractor in charge of decommissioning and decontamination of the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio earned $24.3 million out of a potential fee of almost $33 million for the 16-month period ended Sept. 30, 2017.
The Energy Department’s recent release of the scorecard showing Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth earned 74 percent of its potential fee, comes a couple of weeks after the DOE picked up the company’s 30-month option to keep it on the job at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant. Fluor-BWXT began work on its 10-year contract, now worth $3. 7 billion, in March 2011.
During this latest performance period, the contractor claimed about $7.1 million out of a potential $9.85 million for its subjective ratings work. In addition, it earned $17.2 million out of a potential of almost $23 million in available fee for performance-based earnings.
The latest scorecard is a step up from the last review for a six-month period ended March 28, 2016, when the company earned about $6.8 million out of potentially more than $24 million.
This performance period had its problems as the company earned zero percent of a performance goal for completing certain criticality documentation for the X-326 process building.
Fluor-BWXT started deactivation of the X-333 process building during the period. The X-326 and the X-333 buildings, 1950s structures used in uranium enrichment, are now undergoing deactivation, with the X-330 building being the last one in line, a company spokesman said recently.
The scorecard noted 936 containers of waste were processed and shipped during the review period, although the document did specify where. The company employs about 1,900 workers at the site, according to its website.
A Fluor-BWXT spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on the scorecard by press time.
