Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth earned 75% of its total potential fee and about 82% of its subjective fee from the Department of Energy for its cleanup work at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio for the 12-month period ended March 28, according to a just-released scorecard.
Overall, the contractor took home $16.6 million out of a potential $22.1 million for work under its Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D) Contract, according to the scorecard dated Monday.
That includes $11.2-million out of a possible $15.5 million for its objective performance-based initiatives and $5.4 million out of a potential $6.6 million in subjective fee.
The good scorecard is comparable to the Fluor-BWXT performance last summer when it won 85% of its potential overall fee and 70% of its subjective fee for an 18-month review period ended March 31, 2021.
The Fluor-BWXT contract that started in March 2011 and is scheduled to run into late March 2023 is currently valued at $4.4 billion.
There were safety incidents in the first quarter of calendar year 2022. “These events prompted FBP [Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth] to conduct a top to bottom review of the projects and procedures to ascertain the problem and implement corrections,” the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office said in the scorecard.
There were also “persistent weaknesses” in planning, executing and managing characterization work for building deactivation, according to the DOE.
“While there are a few concerns in the areas of deactivation characterization, safety and environmental protection going forward, FBP deserves credit for simultaneously standing up multiple complicated and interdependent functions during this time,” Portsmouth Paducah Project Office Manager Joel Bradburne said in a DOE statement.
The contractor’s big accomplishment in recent months is demolition of X-326, one of three mammoth process buildings that was used in uranium enrichment at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant scheduled to come down by 2030. “As a result, we are seeing the most significant skyline change to date at Portsmouth,” Bradburne said.
